Author: Eugene Nalimov
Date: 08:35:13 09/23/00
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On September 23, 2000 at 09:23:28, leonid wrote: >On September 23, 2000 at 05:36:28, David Blackman wrote: > >>On September 22, 2000 at 21:30:42, leonid wrote: >> >>>Please, if you know, say for what month 64 bits AMD can be expected. >> >>Next year. Most likely second half. >> >>>If you know >>>some fresh news about Intel's 64, say as well. The last time that I read >>>something about Intel's 64 bits ship, it was expected for somewhere near >>>October, November. >> >>The Intel 64 bit chips are looking very dubious at the moment. Some sort of >>release of 64 bit chips will probably happen this year, but they will be scarce, >>expensive and for most programs, slow. Expect things to get better in the second >>half of 2001, or maybe even early 2002. At the moment the AMD 64 bitters are >>looking better, but with a year or so still to wait for proper volume >>production, this could change. >> >>If you are interested in this kind of stuff, there are several good websites to >>watch, that get all the news and rumours. One example is www.aceshardware.com > >Thanks! > >I see the next 64 bits chess programming as very important and the most >interesting event in the next few years. Disgracefuly in never come! I hope that >AMD will push 64 CPU arrival for all of us. Now I see that there are no more >reason for me to wait for 64 bits any more. Will buy my next computer for Linux >without any more waiting. It is likely that 64 bits chip will have more readily >available Linux system that Windows one. > >Leonid. I have 2 Itanium boxes in my office. Both are running 64-bit Windows. Eugene
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