Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 10:01:13 08/14/01
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On August 14, 2001 at 07:40:47, John Alfred wrote: >Do you know of any attempts by anyone at a chess coprocessor daughterboard? >(apart from anything to do with Deep Blue) > There was a device called "The Chess Machine" that was sold as an ISA card for the PC. You ran a special app and this card "took over", essentially replacing your main CPU for the duration of your chess play/study. It had a nice mouse-based GUI and loads of features, and played quite well for its time (back in the DOS days). Its claim to fame was that it could turn a slow PC (e.g., PC-XT) into a strong chess program, and it lived up to that. As PC CPUs got faster, the Chess Machine lost its market and got quite cheap. I'm sure that's not exactly what you asked, but I wonder if somebody could pull the same (or similar -- true coprocessor?) trick off today, in a world with 1.5+ GHz main CPUs.
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