Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 16:16:39 01/26/00
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On January 26, 2000 at 18:51:02, Bruce Moreland wrote: >Maybe, since it is a chip, it does more than one thing at once. I do *not* have >an EE background, but it would seem to me that you could design a chip that >would do several things at the same time, and it would take a very long time to >do the same thing serially. > >bruce Yup, this is the cool thing about chip design. You can basically do everything in parallel, and that's what the DB chip does. However, when you're talking about a "Deep Blue instruction", I take that to mean "telling the DB chip to do something." Look at it this way: if you had to send the chip 40,000 instructions just to get one single node searched, you might as well just use a Pentium. Bob's claim is so absurd that I could go on for hours listing obvious reasons why it isn't true. -Tom
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