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Re: Can we kill single DES?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Shostack)
Fri Oct 4 13:32:19 1996

From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
To: bkmarsh@feist.com (Bruce M.)
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 12:44:20 -0500 (EST)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.961004091150.24933A-100000@wichita.fn.net> from "Bruce M." at Oct 4, 96 09:14:02 am

DB only has 64 Pentiums.  There are lots of small businesses with more
compute power.  Much more useful to sell IBM on the idea of a
Christmas Tree screen saver. :)

Adam

Bruce M. wrote:

| > A Linux port (Pentium) would be *very* good - lots of Linux people tend to by
| > pro-cpunk.  Ditto for OS/2.   And who knows, if you hyped the business
| > aspects enough you might even find IBM or some other large corp willing to
| > donate some time on large system.
| 
|     Maybe Deep Blue gets bored in between its chess matches. :)



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