Author: Rafael Andrist
Date: 13:00:59 11/16/01
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On November 16, 2001 at 15:43:32, Christophe Theron wrote: >On November 16, 2001 at 14:14:29, Slater Wold wrote: > >>On November 16, 2001 at 13:56:14, Roy Eassa wrote: >> >>>Agreed: having the strongest chess program for the PC will lend MS significant >>>prestige. >>> >>>Anybody think they have a chance at accomplishing this without buying out Tiger >>>or another of the current top engines? >> >>This is *NOT* *NOT* *NOT* going to happen. >> >>If MS DOES decide it's going to release "..the world's strongest chess >>program.." they *CANNOT * buy one! > > > >Yeah, sure. > >If MS wanted to have the best Internet browser in the world, they would not buy >one? > >Well that's exactly what they did. They bought Mosaic, now it's called Internet >Explorer (I concede it has been improved since). > > > > Christophe > Yes, but they really improved the programs they bought and I guess the code is now completely rewritten. some exemples: MS-DOS ( <== QDOS ), Windows NT ( <== some unkown Unix-System) Rafael B. Andrist
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