Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 13:50:35 08/19/98
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On August 19, 1998 at 15:02:18, Amir Ban wrote:
>No, just hopeless.
>
>Hsu's estimate at the PR value of Deep-Blue (2 billion $) is about right. The
>potential damage of the thing playing again is huge. I guess if Hsu gets too
>persistent with this, IBM may pay him a few million $ just to drop it.
>
>Amir
Right. IBM would make a mistake as they did in the past with Microsoft ("make us
another OS, but this time for us , that we also have something new").
And microsoft did, doing os/2.
We know the end of the story.
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