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Subject: Re: How are dual cores going to affect chess?

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 05:28:11 01/29/05

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On January 29, 2005 at 08:20:07, Jason Kent wrote:

Your machine will look like a dual machine. The OS doesn't know better than that
it is 2 processor machine.

>It looks like by the third quarter of this year, both intel and amd will be
>selling dual cores.  Are they basically handled as two processors under task
>manager, and software?  I'm guessing this is going mean that to get the most out
>of your cpu, you will have to buy all the Deep versions.  Maybe that is why SMK
>decided to seperate the programs?
>Jason

I won't comment on SMK, nor on chessbase, but it's obvious that if the intel CEO
says that intel will produce ONLY dual core cpu's within a year and nearly
nothing else, that only parallel software will work for you.

Paying extra for something that just uses a normal single cpu, is a very bad
thing. It means basically you have normally spoken a crippled software program,
as > 90% of all cpu's will be dual core.

Vincent



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