Deep Blitz: taking on Deep Blue with a PC

In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips Keith Williams wrote in part:
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Only when it's -20F (hasn't gotten close this year; all gray)

A good point -- cold knocks out humidity. Still, Lake Ontario & Erie are
open and steaming.

and hopefully no re-entering warheads.

Who would attack the People's Republic of __ (VT/WI/MN -
pick one)? Texas?

LOL! But the bitterest fights are internecine. Those People's
Republics might be attacked by Russia or China 'cuz they've been
passed in the commie race

Besides, aren't you just upwind from the bomber base at Platsburg?

ObOnTopic: I just build an AMD64 and I'm very impressed with
memory latency. About 88ns full-round trip measured by my `c`
pointer chaser. 440BX is 200 at best, and IIRC RDRAM ~300ns.
I don't have many machines for testing.

-- Robert

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lid says...
In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips Keith Williams wrote in part:
stars
Only when it's -20F (hasn't gotten close this year; all gray)

A good point -- cold knocks out humidity. Still, Lake Ontario & Erie are
open and steaming.

That's well south of us. We get no lake-effects this far North.

and hopefully no re-entering warheads.

Who would attack the People's Republic of __ (VT/WI/MN -
pick one)? Texas?

LOL! But the bitterest fights are internecine. Those People's
Republics might be attacked by Russia or China 'cuz they've been
passed in the commie race

Ouch!

Besides, aren't you just upwind from the bomber base at Platsburg?

That's been closed for more than a decade and was in Airlift
Command (KC10s) for a long time before that. Hmm, though
_Bombardier_ builds subway cars there now.

ObOnTopic: I just build an AMD64 and I'm very impressed with
memory latency. About 88ns full-round trip measured by my `c`
pointer chaser. 440BX is 200 at best, and IIRC RDRAM ~300ns.
I don't have many machines for testing.

I can volunteer time on an Opteron (and a K6-III ;-). It's almost
two (six) years old and uses registered memory (though PC3200), so
likely slower by a good deal.

--
Keith