Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 10:51:34 01/20/00
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On January 20, 2000 at 12:11:07, leonid wrote: >Tom, you killed me! I expected to do my game for 64 bits but now it sound like I >must go immidiately and start writing for this Windows. Deadly boring and >expensive writing for somebody who is not rich now and will be so up to the year >2003. I still hope that maybe some competition will make entire situation more >rosy that we had in our best dreams. Remember the first Pentiums? They >presumably should stay for a long time only for big offices, if my memory is >right. In very short time this computer became so accessible that cheap 486 >vanished for ever. None of this should come as a surprise to you, because I've told it to you several times in private e-mail. I just thought of something else. Because of the IA-64 architecture, it will be very difficult to program by hand. I suspect that compilers will be able to do a much better job optimizing code than humans. The 486 and Pentium were a long time ago. Notice that the Xeon processors are still prohibitively expensive, and they've been around for a long time. -Tom
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