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Subject: Re: Anyone know what Ken Thompson is up to these days?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 00:10:51 02/13/02

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On February 13, 2002 at 02:15:34, Ed Schröder wrote:

>On February 12, 2002 at 18:57:13, Russell Reagan wrote:
>
>>I heard that Ken Thompson is working on some project that he's being very hush
>>hush about. Anyone have any guesses at what it might be? Anything chess related?
>>Judging from his past "projects", it's bound to be something cool :)
>>
>>Russell
>
>
>The rumor: a chess hardware project, KT in lead, Chrilly Donninger (Nimzo) being
>responsible for the software part. The thing under the name Brutus will play in
>the upcoming Paderborn tournament. NPS 5-10M.
>
>I have no idea how much of the above is true however the rumors about this new
>hardware thing came to me via several independent sources long time ago. I guess
>we soon (Paderborn) will find out what is true and what is not.

5-10 M NPS?  It seems silly to develop hardware to do that.  A 4 CPU high end
Alpha is in that range.  Or is that a single chip and you can couple lots of
them together like Deep Blue?



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