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Subject: Re: Will "Blue Gene" be a chessmachine?

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 07:56:21 12/09/99

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On December 09, 1999 at 00:51:34, Lonnie Cook wrote:

>TO all,
>I think it will! I think IBM's grand scheme of things is to get the momentum
>going like in the last Match with GK only this time it will be much bigger. A
>grudge match for the humans, a much faster computer, transient whispers of human
>intervention for DB, more people online, millions more AND he stands to profit
>from it all ... IBM, massive publicity.
>
>They keep saying it will NOT be used as a chess machine but little by little if
>they let trickles of propaganda out they can squeeze the public till they pop!

they're never gonna press a million chesschips, forget that.
they risk like 144 billion dollar doing something like that,
not talking about investments.

IBM just uses marketing hypes like this to compare things with.



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