Vincent, I fear I have fallen into a "vincent-hole" in which there exists a point at which a discussion-horizon is crossed and my ability to understand what you are talking about ceases to exist. For me, after crossing this threshold the point of the discussion is lost and I enter a state of maximum entropy.
-- Doug > Some manufacturers exported to 106 countries certain types of machines. > This all happened from end 70s to start 90s. > > Software has total ended all that. What happens now is that some machine > sometimes sells in 1 country a 100k units, but that's all lowend dedicated > units. > > It is no compare. Realize the huge boom of software games when PC's > arrived. > > Right now the big games (other than chess) sell 3-5 million copies a year > (50-100 euro a product), > and compared to that chess is very tiny. Chessmaster still claims 4 > million > unit sales, but that's over > a number of years, not within 1 year. > > So in that sense releasing a chessproduct is commercially not so > interesting. > Creating some new game, making a lot of bla bla around it and hope to get > one of the games that sell 3-5 million copies a year, is far more > interesting. > > If you compare that with hardware, then those manufacturers still rip off > people. That new quad > core2 chip is going to release at 999 euro next month and of course is > very > fast. > > But just look to the huge price of it as compared to software games. > > Vincent > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Douglas Eadline" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Vincent Diepeveen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: "Geoff Jacobs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Angel Dimitrov" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <beowulf@beowulf.org>; "Jim Lux" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Robert G. Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 9:44 PM > Subject: Re: [Beowulf] commercial clusters > > >> > >>>> Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >> -- snip -- >>> >>> Well the hard facts is that hundreds of thousands of $3000-$20k >>> chesscomputers (dedicated with a 10Mhz chip) have been sold until the >>> pc >>> was >>> faster than the dedicated chesscomputers. A vaste multiple indeed of >>> that >>> of >>> $50-$1000 computers has been sold at the time. >> >> Are you saying: At least 100,000 chess computers were sold for an >> average of $6000 (US) for a total of $600,000,000 before the PC was >> introduced. Almost a billion dollar chess computer market segment. >> You are right, that is a hard fact to believe. >> >> -- >> Doug >> >> >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > -- Doug _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
