Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 12:40:39 05/05/05
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On May 05, 2005 at 12:00:40, Keith Evans wrote: >On May 05, 2005 at 11:56:12, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On May 05, 2005 at 00:01:48, Keith Evans wrote: >> >>>On May 03, 2005 at 16:40:06, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>> >>>>On May 03, 2005 at 04:06:35, Jouni Uski wrote: >>>> >>>>>I just watched 19 minutes video from Hydra site. It claims, that Ken Thomson >>>>>is father of Hydra! Really?? I doubt a lot... >>>>> >>>>>Jouni >>>> >>>> >>>>"Belle". >>>> >>>>Hydra's design is based on "belle" just like deep thought/deep blue was as >>>>well... >>> >>>Shouldn't Joe Condon get a mention? >> >> >>Certainly... he had just specifically asked about Ken, which is what I >>responded to. I don't think Joe was into "chess" at all. He was an engineer >>that helped ken put things together from an engineering perspective, not from a >>chess perspective. > >I was always curious about what Condon contributed, versus what Ken contributed. >For example the Belle move generator was a clever idea, and it seems like nobody >has come up with a radically different and better method for a purely hardware >design. I wonder who came up with the idea? Ken Thompson or Joe Condon. Any >idea? > >-Keith Ken. Joe primarily helped with the engineering aspects of Belle. For example, it was all based on PLAs, and interfaced to a PDP-11/44 minicomputer. The chess-machine to PDP-11 was one thing Joe did himself. Helping Ken lay things out, wire-wrapping, etc was also his kind of expertise. The design was all Ken however...
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