Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 06:17:08 03/05/04
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On March 05, 2004 at 09:07:47, Thorsten Czub wrote: >On March 05, 2004 at 08:37:51, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >>When i asked a few years ago whether i could put diep at SSDF, >>Karlsson shipped me email that he could only garantuee diep to be quickly on the >>list if i would ship him a computer or 2. "As we are in big lack of hardware". I >>then heard from someone else he is a surgeon. > >Maybe this was a misunderstanding. Maybe he wanted to find a reason NOT to test >your program. I remember in older ssdf-list they often spoke about their >"resources" problem and that they cannot test hiarcs on 486-66 but only on 33 >mhz >because they had to give all those "resources" to genius instead :-)) > >This was when Hiarcs was world-chess champion in 1993/1993. > >So the resources-problem definetely seems to be an authentic problem they had. >maybe this was only a sentence you misinterpreted diep. it was not a request >that YOU should send him a machine, but a kind of : "oh - we have so much to do >and not enough computer !" kind of statement. The statement was crystal clear. No this wasn't in the 486 period but already in the AMD period.
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