Author: Jason Kent
Date: 05:31:27 01/29/05
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On January 29, 2005 at 08:28:11, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >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 It sounds like there will be plenty of programming needed to fix all of the current software to make it SMP compatible. Since I will be coming out of school in another year or so, hopefully it will be easy to find work. :D
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