Author: James B. Shearer
Date: 10:54:01 01/23/00
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On January 23, 2000 at 12:07:11, Tom Kerrigan wrote:
>Here's what you _never_ explained: why would it take 2 years to make DB/PC? I
>can throw a good chess program together in a month, and probably less if I
>already knew which terms and weights I wanted in the evaluation function. Even
>if FHH didn't want to start from scratch, what's to keep him from directly
>porting the DB software? What makes the SP so different from a 4-way Pentium
>Xeon? Or a 1-way Celeron, for that matter? Zugzwang is a pretty huge program
>that usually runs on a massively multiprocessor PowerPC computer, but it only
>takes a few minutes to get Zugzwang to run on a PC, too. Are you trying to say
>that the DB software is so poorly engineered (perhaps riddled with SP assembly)
>that porting it would take years? I know that MUCH bigger programs have been
>ported from the PC to the Mac in a matter of weeks...
>
>-Tom
Perhaps Hsu does not have the rights to the DB software.
James B. Shearer
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