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Subject: Re: Software Programmers are Now OBSOLETE! [Hydra]

Author: Joachim Rang

Date: 12:06:15 02/15/04

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On February 15, 2004 at 10:26:01, Albert Silver wrote:

>On February 15, 2004 at 09:38:33, Bob Durrett wrote:
>
>>
>>Chess commentary:
>>
>>The days of the software programmers are fast coming to an end.
>>
>>The days of the "hardware programmers" are just beginning.
>>
>>Bob D.
>
>It wouldn't the first chess hardware solution to be sold for the PC if offered
>now. The problem is that the card/board doesn't evolve nearly as fast as normal
>CPUs so pretty soon whatever advantage it had over the CPUs of the day is lost.
>After that it becomes more a collector's item than anything else.
>
>                                       Albert

I think the contrary is true. THe prospects of accellerating such an FPGA - Card
are much better than of further accellerating the processors. The current FPGA
runs only on 33 MHz, it is easy to double and triple that but with processors
it'S not so easy.

regards Joachim



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