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Subject: Re: Could Deep Blue Have done better than D.J Using the same Primergy ?

Author: walter irvin

Date: 10:14:59 07/13/00

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On July 11, 2000 at 23:29:03, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On July 11, 2000 at 21:17:40, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>Graham Laight wrote that in 1997 Deep Blue did better than Deep Junior is doing
>>now; whenever it got a significant advantage, it won against Kasparov.
>>
>>My answer to that comparison is that if you compare the difference in hardware
>>between Deep Blue Super computer to the Primergy netserver, it is like
>>comparing the Space Shuttle to a Helicopter in Speed. Deep Blue could not have
>>done better against this type of opponents, using the same Primergy Netserver.
>>
>>Pichard.
>
>
>It is a ridiculous statement to make.  DB was special-purpose hardware.  Not
>a general purpose machine like the primergy. It is the same as asking if a
>heart surgeon would be able to do the same type of surgery using a steak knife
>and duct tape.

there you go bob!!! i like the way you put that.



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