Author: leonid
Date: 13:19:54 01/20/00
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On January 20, 2000 at 13:51:34, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >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 I am not that sure why some chips are so expensive and not others. It could be very much be question of mass production. Once the mentality is changed and the company is ready to live with small margine for each chip, but huge money in total (big number of chips sold), everything could become different. I hope that this will happen one day. You remember that you said me once that one 64 bits computer is sold for as little as (if my memory is right) 1200$. Never mind that this computer is only 400Mhz and don't have that many registers that Intel is expected to have. Probably even now this computer is very attractive. Producer must only fix its compatibility problem like AMD and other already did. Leonid.
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