Author: Slater Wold
Date: 22:04:03 02/18/02
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On February 18, 2002 at 23:04:21, Russell Reagan wrote: >In reading the Deep Blue post below, I was curious how exactly they program >hardware to perform certain actions. Is it similair to the way that they make a >CPU with certain instructions that it can execute? Is this something that the >common person can experiment with, or do you have to be IBM (or other big >computer company) to play around with stuff like that? Seems interesting to me. >I'd like to know more about it. > >Russell Hsu created most of this stuff in college. The chip design, the chip, the software. He just basically took it to IBM, and they made it better. I know that after ply 6, all other evaluations were done with HW. It was an incredible setup, and I would just ruin it if I tried to explain. Bob would be the best I think. ;)
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