Author: Mike Byrne
Date: 10:38:19 03/16/03
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<snip> >A prediction of mine is precisely the opposite of yours; that, within 5 years, >there will be _no_ dedicated chess machines at all. The market is too small, >laptops and PDAs are getting cheaper, and mobile phones running Java (etc) will >be there too ... > >Alastair Sadly, I concur with your prognosis of the dedicated chess machine market. The dedicated chess machine bubble ( if you can call this a "bubble") peaked in late 1992/1993 with the production of te TASC R30/40 models and the Genius 68030. No dedicated unit has come close to these models since then. It will only be a matter of time before we have a handheld (fully fuunctional unit that is not dedicated to chess) machine that will be stronger than any dedicated unit ever made.
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