Author: Tord Romstad
Date: 03:16:20 02/28/06
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On February 27, 2006 at 20:13:51, Mark Ryan wrote: >On February 27, 2006 at 18:55:07, Tord Romstad wrote: > >>On February 27, 2006 at 18:39:23, Ryan B. wrote: >> >>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. No, I was really only referring to the Deep Blue ----> Deep Blue Jr. ----> Deep Junior ----> Deep Everything sequence. Tord
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