Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 10:01:42 07/07/99
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On July 07, 1999 at 08:02:14, Rajen Gupta wrote: >when microsoft the great releases a 64 bit version of win9x/NT, would that be >the time when the alpha processor comes into its own? I don't see why, but, warning, I am not an expert on the Alpha. The compiler you get from Microsoft, which I am told has a Digital back end, generates 32-bit ints by default. But the Alpha seems to do fine on 32-bit ints. And you can make a 64-bit int easily enough. So, I don't see what changing the OS and compiler to use 64-bit ints by default will accomplish, in a chess programming sense. bruce
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