Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 22:40:47 11/05/00
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On November 05, 2000 at 14:10:11, K. Burcham wrote:
>chris, that was funny. but the first chance i get, i will upgrade to the new
>dual athlon motherboards, with the dual athlon mb--you should get a minimum of 3
>gig mhz, or sys.com is advertising a new 1.6 at their site (kyro), dual 1 gigs
>are all over the internet, i have (dual processor) diep, dj, and will get deep
>shredder as soon as it is available, i also have most of the single proc.
>programs. i have ordered rebel 11, the new millinium package, cm8000, and i have
>the powerbook, nalimov and ken thompsons tbs. i see that the 1.5 gig p4 is
>available on the internet. this should be available with a dual mb by jan. or
>feb. with a 3 gig dual setup with my dj---you should get about 1650 kns. like i
>said, when i read about all this hardware, i start sweating, and then i call my
>boss and tell him i need to work some overtime. i dont do drugs and i dont drink
>thunderbird, but i enjoy these programs, and overclocking my processor to see
>how it responds. my 1050 is boring because i want to see what gambit-tiger will
>do running on an 1800 mhz k7 or k8 with about 4 sticks of 128 megs of the new
>ddr ram. i am very aware that there is more to comp chess than just hardware,
>and i am very aware of the accomplishments of robert, chris, amar, shay, stefan,
>ed, etc., but i am having a blast.
If your pleasure is on hardware, great. Personally the hardware evolution makes
me dizzy.
I still test Tiger on 386sx-20MHz (if you know what it is :), and my dream is to
make Tiger the strongest program in the world on that hardware.
I play "mine is bigger than yours" with software only. Knowing that my processor
is going to consume in just one day more Watts than some people in the third
world will use in their whole lifetime does not make me especially happy.
So you can guess what I think about multiprocessor computers.
Sorry to spoil the Gigahertz party. I'm not mother Theresa, but sometimes I feel
a little bit guilty. Which does nothing to solve the problem, I know, I know...
Christophe
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