Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 18:14:33 02/18/04
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On February 18, 2004 at 12:07:16, Bob Durrett wrote: [snip] >I am reminded of the Fidelity Challenger discussed here recently. If the >Fidelity guys had known then what is known today, their machine would have been >much stronger. I suspect that we have not seen the last of dedicated >chess-playing machines. You can do only so much on a general purpose sequential >machine like a PC. Hydra is sort-of a half and half since it is hardware but, >like a parasite, it still seems to need a PC [or equivalent] as a host. The Fidelity chess machines used general purpose CPUs (not custom hardware). Either the 6502 for the early ones or 68000 for the later models. If they had used custom hardware, nobody could have bought one. Or it would have been very weak. That was quite a while ago.
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