Author: Francesco Di Tolla
Date: 09:41:02 05/21/99
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On May 20, 1999 at 06:15:53, Rajen Gupta wrote: >you are meely considering the cost of the actual hardware without considering >the intellectual input in designing the boards. sure the slab of wood with black >and white squares and the bits of electronic wouldn't cost much but the people >who thought of this design and implemented it into a commercial product need to >make some money for a living. (after all a lot of software is available on a few >floppies or a cdrom which costs less than a buck to produce so by your reasoning >all software (including current chess programmes) should cost less than a buck. > your statement is corect, but my opinion was clearly based on the asumption that the complexity of the system is trivial. After all one can buy a plastic board with a risc CPU inside and a program running on it for a comparable amount of money (some cost even less). regards Franz
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