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Subject: Re: DB Chip will kill all comercial programs or.....

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 05:44:57 05/19/99

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On May 19, 1999 at 01:43:54, James B. Shearer wrote:

>On May 19, 1999 at 01:24:36, Eugene Nalimov wrote:
>
>>Page 81:
>>
>>"I am forming an independent start-up to create a new chess chip for consumers.
>>This new chip could make it possible for a desktop machine to defeat the Worlds
>>Champion in a formal match as early as the year 2000."
>>
>          And how does this imply that Hsu's startup will have the rights to the
>IBM deep blue programs and will not have to rewrite them from scratch?
>                            James B. Shearer
>PS:  Sorry about the duplicate posts.  For some reason the board was truncating
>my post and resubmitting it just reproduced the problem.


Because he specifically mentions the year 2000, which is 7 months from
which implies his time frame for delivery is 7 ~ 19 months.  He isn't going to
rewrite _everything_ from scratch in that period of time.



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