Author: Chris Anderson
Date: 22:56:01 05/24/99
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On May 24, 1999 at 10:54:41, Fernando Villegas wrote:
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>Hi Chris:
>There is some tiny flaw in your reasonning and it is this: DB IS mostly the
>hardware, so of course everything on it is "largely" owed to procesing power. If
>Hiarcs is putted to work in comparable hardaware, it would not be any more
>hiarcs, but a kind of DB. DFB hardware is not like a PC, a general use device,
>but ot is specificaly designed to calculet chess moves.
>fernando
I realize this, but I asked the question because people were wondering
whether Hsu was going to go commercial with DB. Your above point seems to answer
the question and concurs with my thoughts. However is it inconceivable to run
Hiarcs or Fritz on some massive supercomputer and achieve near-DB search depths?
Chris Anderson
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