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Subject: Re: DB will never play with REBEL, they simple are afraid no to do well

Author: Jeremiah Penery

Date: 06:36:32 10/15/99

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On October 15, 1999 at 01:15:17, Dave Gomboc wrote:

>I'm not sure what all the crap about not being creative is.  The Deep Thought
>people said for years that massive extensions were the way to go.  That was
>fairly creative, seeing as almost all of the micro people disagreed vehemently
>("doesn't work", "it's garbage", "they need it because they have no eval", etc.)

I completely agree.


>And today?  Micros are fast enough that we realize healthy doses of extensions
>can improve performance significantly... because the micros of today are,
>speed-wise, where the DT team was already at roughly 10 years ago, and everyone
>can see it for themself.

Weren't they already going at a few million NPS back then?  I don't think any
micro is so fast, yet. (Crafty on a multi-CPU Alpha machine would be, though. :)

Jeremiah



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