Author: David Blackman
Date: 00:42:43 11/05/00
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On November 04, 2000 at 08:13:03, leonid wrote: >Hello! > >When 64 bits Intel's computer will be produced? And it will be really soon? Perhaps late in 2001. Some chips have already been built, but not very many, and Intel is only selling them to software developers who must sign non-disclosure agreements and not tell us anything useful. >Yesterday one of my friends sent me few links about Intel's 64 bits computer. At >first I expected that it is already in shop. Was happy!!! Later I only could see >that all those pages talk more about how good this chip is that about its >imminent production. If somebody here knows more about real date of production >of 64 bits chip (Intel, AMD...) or its possible influence on the entire chess >programming, please say your opinion. AMD will be available at about the same time as Intel, probably. You can already buy 64 bit machines from Compaq, Sun, IBM, SGI and heaps of other companies. Some of these have been available for 10 years or more. Most of them are quite expensive, and most won't run Microsoft software or the popular commercial chess programs. They will run Crafty, or anything else you can get source code for. There are also some very cheap 64 bit machines running in game consoles. Again, they don't run most of the software you want. I think 64 bit machines will run chess programs a little better than 32 bit programs, provided the programmer is thinking how to make use of the larger word size. But the advantage will be fairly small.
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