Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 16:01:20 01/25/03
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On January 25, 2003 at 15:29:45, pavel wrote: >I was just browsing the web looking for Computer Chess programming related >articles, and than I bumped into this: > >http://sccs.muldermedia.de/ > >Quote: >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >"If ask whether Ferret could crush Deep Blue, my answer was yes, if it was >dropped out of an airplane. With the new machine [quad Xeon], it would only need >to be dropped five or six stories, which is progress of a sort." >(Bruce Morland on CCC) > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >I never read it on the forum, but it's a good one. :) > >Cheers, >pavs I think that can be traced back to Ken Thompson. In the early 1980's he was on his way to Moscow to give a "Belle" demo there at the Institute for Control Science, after an invitation by Donskoy. Belle, as you may know, had a built-in PDP-11-70, plus a bunch of chess boards based on simple PLA chips that were available anywhere. However, there was a definite export limit on high-technology, and for reasons unknown to anybody, U.S. customs siezed the machine as it was ready to be loaded on the plane to Moscow. After a lot of haggling, they said "you can't take this out of the US, it is valuable technology that could be used in war-time against us." Ken responded, "sure it could be used in a war, you could drop it out of a plane and you _might_ get lucky and hit someone..." :)
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