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Subject: Re: next deep blue

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 17:40:54 01/22/00

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On January 22, 2000 at 20:15:34, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On January 22, 2000 at 19:15:18, Tom Kerrigan wrote:
>
>>On January 22, 2000 at 17:59:10, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>Never done any hardware design/testing, eh?  They could test a _lot_ of things
>>
>>I have, and I would avoid a situation where my mobility was "accidentally" tuned
>>way too high.
>>
>>There's a reason why the top programmers don't change their programs for a few
>>months before major tournaments...
>>
>>-Tom
>
>One "top programmer" changed his program 20 minutes before the first round of
>the 1983 WCCC event, and went on to win the tournament.  We had to do that as
>we were given our first glimpse of the parallel machine 2 weeks before the
>tournament.  Harry was debugging while I was driving to NYC.  Hsu had the same
>problem with DB2 due to some ugly fab shop errors...
>
>It happens...  it would be nice to have a year to get ready.  They hardly had
>a month...

They should have had software diagnostics in place to see if the chips were
working right, and if they weren't, what was wrong with them.

-Tom



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