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Subject: Re: FH replies to Owen Williams

Author: Jeremiah Penery

Date: 14:21:45 01/14/00

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On January 14, 2000 at 15:52:58, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>It would be a speculative venture.  Would you spend $100,000 of your own
>money on such a project, "just because"?  I only know of one computer chess
>person that came close, and that was Bruce, buying his own personal quad
>xeon.  that is a non-trivial expense.  With little hope of getting anything
>back.  I would (myself) probably consider buying a quad xeon, for $10K+,
>but my wife would probably shoot me if I started talking about a 100K 8-way
>xeon box

Yeah, she should make you buy a 32-CPU Alpha machine instead. :)))

How much do those things cost, anyway?



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