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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