Author: Robert Henry Durrett
Date: 19:15:35 06/17/02
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On June 17, 2002 at 22:04:07, Dann Corbit wrote: >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. ;-) Well, we'll just have to wait and see. It won't be long now . . . :) Bob D.
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