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Subject: When I was a kid I wanted to own Belle..Now I have better.

Author: Timothy J. Frohlick

Date: 18:52:36 02/02/03


In two years from now we will all own computers that play better than the
hardware that Deep Junior is playing on.  I doubt that any of us here will be
scoring more than 1 point out of six against such chess computers. Will we be
happy then?

Back in the early 1980s and the monster special purpose computer Belle created
by Ken Thompson of Bell Labs I lusted to own the beast. Now that we have fast
computers with relatively massive memory are we happy?

Is progress a good thing?


Tio Timmy

PS Both Fernando and I desire a return to a slower more friendly time.




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