Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 06:10:24 01/29/05
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On January 29, 2005 at 08:42:36, Evgeny Shu wrote: >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 > >So what we have here is on every "normal cpu"=dual core we buy a half of a chess >program ? Maybe a license for every cpu next instead single vs multiple ? Maybe no license at all. Maybe better is 1 product that supports n cores, without limiting n. Vincent
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