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Subject: Re: Can DVD facillitate much stronger programs?

Author: Laurence Chen

Date: 05:08:33 08/18/00

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On August 18, 2000 at 05:11:41, stuart taylor wrote:

>Is there any way that strength of a chess playing program can be made greater by
>making it on a DVD, instead of CD? Besides openings, and/or endgame tablebasses?
>  I mean, can size of program possible on DVD if utilzed properly, contain much
>more knowledge, each kind of knowledge being accesable when appropriate?
>  If so, when will this be?
>S.Taylor
IMHO never.  Hard drive access is always going to be much faster than DVD or
CD-Rom access.  Also, one can get a 80 GB IDE Hard Drive.  As size of Hard Drive
grows every year, space is not an issue.
Laurence



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