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Subject: Re: Is Hardware Over -valued? Why is Diep doing so Poorly?

Author: Keith Evans

Date: 09:19:40 07/11/02

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On July 11, 2002 at 11:57:05, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On July 11, 2002 at 09:03:20, Rolf Tueschen wrote:
>

>>The Hsu team of IBM did avoid it by introducing GM Benjamin into the testings.
>>IMO he had to check nonsense and contradictions of the play in relation to the
>>books.
>
>Apples and oranges.  The DB guys _never_ tried to tune their program while
>running at 1/1000th the speed of the real machine.  That was the problem we
>fell into.  They had access to their machine all the time and could test in
>any way they wanted.  We had little access to the Cray except right before
>an annual computer chess tournament, so all our development was _forced_
>onto a VAX, which was far slower.
>

How did you do your Cray development on a Vax? Did Cray supply an emulator?

Regards,
Keith



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