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Subject: Re: When will a deep Blue equivalent Be commercially Available?

Author: Mark Young

Date: 17:02:03 11/06/98

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On November 06, 1998 at 19:35:58, G.Mueller wrote:

>On November 06, 1998 at 18:48:39, odell hall wrote:
>
>>I am interested in knowing, if even by a wild guess when a program with the
>>strength of deepblue will be available to the public? Five years? or maybe
>>three?
>In my opinion this will be realized in two years, because Hardware will be
>faster and faster, next year we will have Processors with 600 Mhz....
>And chessprogrammers do a lot to write stronger and stronger programmes.

It would have to be one strong program, becasue Deepblue's hardware runs many
Magnitude faster then any near future piece of home computer hardware. I would
guess at least 8 to 12 years.
>
>best wishes G. Mueller



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