Author: Bob Durrett
Date: 08:36:27 11/25/03
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On November 24, 2003 at 23:33:48, Russell Reagan wrote: >On November 24, 2003 at 22:40:07, Bob Durrett wrote: > >>It depends on who is putting up the money or personal time. >> >>From the perspective of others, it is good that these guys produced Brutus >>because they are "showing the way" for future programmers. [Let's hope they >>publish!] As new hardware becomes available, it will be easier to produce the >>"next generation Brutus" [using "lessons learned"]. >> >>Every coin has two sides. > >But who is going to make the next Brutus? Remember, the author of Brutus was >also the author of another reasonably strong software based program (Nimzo). It >is going to take someone who has the experience and know how to write a strong >program to begin with. That limits it to a handful of people in the world. I >don't expect any of the top commercial authors to turn their focus to FPGAs. >They have a good thing going. I highly doubt that selling FPGAs is going to be >very successful financially. > >That is why I said it wouldn't suprise me if there were one or two new ones that >came along in the next few years, but I don't think there will be a big trend of >the masses moving to it. Most of us amateur computer chess programmers don't >have the time, money, desire, or computer chess know how to create an FPGA beast >like Brutus. There just aren't that many people who have all of the >requirements. YOU could do it! In fact, that could become your main claim to fame! Your "big bang," so to speak. Your "life's work." : ) Bob D.
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