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Subject: Re: The art of debate

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 16:47:07 01/26/00

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On January 26, 2000 at 19:29:45, Tom Kerrigan wrote:
>On January 26, 2000 at 19:00:43, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>It certainly does not sound likely, but without the context of what Hsu actually
>>said, I can't be sure what was meant.  But then, I did not read the threads in
>>question.  I think Bob may have reviewed FHH's book, and maybe he got the idea
>>from there.  What is the thread title.  I'd like to take a look.
>
>From post 90918: (by Bob)
>>You overlook the hardware point.  The equivalent of 40K instructions.  But when
>>done in the hardware design of DB.  This does not mean that 40K instructions
>>on an X86 would replicate this evaluation...
>
>I guess my memory isn't that great and I made a mistake. He never directly said
>you have to send the DB chip 40k instructions to evaluate a node. However, you
>can see for yourself that what he did say is even more confusing and still not
>correct.

Sounds like a classical case of missed communication to me.  He said the
"equivalent" of 40K instructions.  That could be (in my mind) any number of
actual instructions, including one.

One problem with the english language is that it has ambiguities.  Three people
can read the same sentence and get three different meanings out of it.



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