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Subject: Spoke to soon <s>

Author: Les Fernandez

Date: 11:37:50 08/10/01

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On August 10, 2001 at 12:47:01, Shep wrote:

>On August 10, 2001 at 08:03:37, Les Fernandez wrote:
>>Strictly from a speed point of view the above computer is approxiamtely 50,000
>>times faster then the hardware that was used in the Deeper Blue hardware!
>
>Sorry Les, but this is utterly wrong.
>
>Deeper Blue had a speed of 200 - 1,000 million _nodes_per_second_ in chess.
>This is something completely different from saying it had 0.2 - 1 billion
>instructions per second.
>
>Your calculation would be right if "node" == "instruction", but no computer (not
>even a highly specialized one as DB) can examine one node in one instruction.
>
>---
>Shep

Yes Shep you are correct, my statement would only be true if node=intruction.
While we are on the subject how many instructions was Deeper Blue's hardware
able to do? Just curious.

Thx

Les



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