Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 19:04:07 06/17/02
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On June 17, 2002 at 21:46:57, Robert Henry Durrett wrote: [snip] >Running the match on an 8-processor computer is not going to make a lot of >people rush out and purchase multi-processor computers. I don't think there is any desire to encourge that. However, they could sell: Deep Fritz 8 -- the program that Beat Kramnik twice![1] >So "the Fritz people" >are already one step away from "reality." You suggest that they could, >possibly, even take another step further away from reality by using 64-bit. Consumers have no idea what SMP is or even what 64 bit Windows is or any of that. Here is what they will understand: The program that beat Kramnik runs on Windows and I can buy it for $80! >Using a different operating system would merely be just one more step in the >same direction. More like a giant leap. 99.999% of the populace see unix as "That scary thing that geeks know about and shows up in stuff like 'Jurassic Park'" >How far would "the Fritz people" go to win the match? If I were Kramnik, I would carefully check my lemonade. ;-) > If they >won the match, they could at least brag about Kramnik being whipped by "Fritz." The UNIX bit would totally blow away the illusion. If the competitors did somehow communicate that the version of Windows and the hardware used by Fritz was not like theirs, they would probably still imagine that it is just a minor upgrade. >Maybe most of the non-professional computer users would not appreciate the >difference? UNIX verses Win32, they would freak. They will simply not understand any of the other issues. [1] and lost ten times, but then, who's counting. ;-)
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