Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 14:31:46 02/13/02
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On February 13, 2002 at 15:15:40, Russell Reagan wrote: >On February 13, 2002 at 03:10:51, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>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? > >It's also possible that the rumor is old, and that the 10Mnps was from several >years ago, making it slightly more attractive, and a current estimate might be >larger. I suppose it also depends on what is meant by "NPS". If it were 5 million MChess NPS rather than 5 million Goliath NPS, I think the meaning changes rather dramatically.
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