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Subject: Re: Computer-Chess effort -- another opinion

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 22:04:10 12/21/99

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You're right, at the very beginning of this thread, a lot of people gave Greg a
hard time. I don't think he deserved it. I felt bad for him and I even said as
much in my original response. Here's his reply:

>Xilinx's current product line goes up to 1,000,000 gates. It's helpful to stay
>well below that maximum for cost reasons, of course, but 150k is well within
>reach. The FPGA clock rate today is above Deep Blue's ASIC clock rates then.
>BTW, I wasn't intending to get into a discussion about the proposal here. I was
>asking for volunteers.

Now, this may be an issue of semantics, but the first 3 lines sound like a
lecture to me. I have no need to be lectured by somebody who (quite clearly)
doesn't know what he's talking about.

And I don't think there's ANY way to justify the last two lines...

-Tom

P.S.  You wouldn't believe what he called me in private e-mail. =)



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