Author: Mark Ryan
Date: 17:13:51 02/27/06
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On February 27, 2006 at 18:55:07, Tord Romstad wrote: >On February 27, 2006 at 18:39:23, Ryan B. wrote: > >>On February 27, 2006 at 18:12:36, Tord Romstad wrote: >> [snip] > >>>The "Deep" prefix is embarassingly silly, especially >>>for those of us who have been around long enough to remember how it >>>all started. >> >>A family member of mine once asked me if I know anything about the PC version of >>Deep Blue, you know the Junior one... > >For the benefit of those who were *not* here when it all started, I'll >give a brief summary: > >I assume that everybody has heard about Deep Blue. IBM also had >a light-weight version of Deep Blue, running on a much lower number >of processors, which they decided to call "Deep Blue Jr". The Junior >team became furious because they felt that IBM tried to steal their >name, and some extraordinarily stupid and unnecessary flamewars >about the topic arose in the CCC. > >A while later, in what to all neutral observers looked like a >mind-bogglingly childish attempt to make a point (I'm not sure >that's what it was, but it certainly looked so), the first parallel >version of Junior was released as "Deep Junior". To my amazement, >this almost instantly became the standard naming convention for >parallel versions of previously single-threaded programs. It didn't >last long before Deep Shredder, Deep Fritz and Deep Sjeng appeared >on the scene. > >Tord Is that all? I was sure that you were referring to Deep Blue <----- Deep Thought <----- Deep Throat.
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