Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 16:11:40 01/22/00
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On January 22, 2000 at 17:44:44, Robert Hyatt wrote: >No. Because deep blue can't play "without its main speed hardware". It is >based totally on hardware. You know, you say this a lot, and it makes perfect sense at first glance. However, if you think a little more about it, it's actually stupid. Making software is easy. Designing hardware is hard. Trying out software is easy. Trying out hardware takes millions of dollars. If FHH didn't try his algorithms in software before comitting them to silicon, well, that's a huge waste of time and money. I think it's fairly safe to assume that DB can play without the DB chips... otherwise somebody was being horribly irresponsible. -Tom
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