Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 15:52:05 01/05/99
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On January 05, 1999 at 17:57:05, blass uri wrote: [snip] >I believe it is possible to produce a 3000 rated program on today's hardware >I am not sure if humans are inteligent enough to do it but I believe that >1,000,000,000$ are enough to produce at least 2800 program It would probably take a billion dollars and a hardware solution to get to 3000(I don't know what IBM spent, but I would be very surprised if it were more than 10-20 million -- does anyone know a ballpark figure? After all, the chip was already designed by Hsu). Here is what I think would be a lot more interesting. Would it be possible to make a 2750 ELO program with total cost of less than $1000 per unit? I would be more than astonished to see anyone spend a billion dollars for purely promotional purposes. A billion dollars buys a lot of advertizing. Even Superbowl commercials are 'only' a couple million dollars. You could buy every add in every Superbowl for a decade for a billion dollars.
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