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From: ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>)
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Subject: Re: Ballistic transistors, the Belle II chess machine, & Seymour Cray
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Date: Mon, 11-Mar-85 20:42:11 EST
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>      The first major application of ballistic transistor technology
> is the Belle II project at Murray Hill.  Since K. Thompson discovered
> that each speed doubling of the standard alpha-beta chess machine adds
> 70-100 rating points, 

Gee, does he still say that?  He used to back 6 or 7 years ago, expecting
great results as technology advanced.  We asked him about it at the Second
Toronto UNIX conference and things weren't progressing as he had predicted.