Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:36:44 12/08/00
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On December 08, 2000 at 22:26:31, Dann Corbit wrote: >On December 08, 2000 at 22:04:25, John Dahlem wrote: > >>ok Randy, is this the (current) ultimate chess PC? >>http://www.zdnet.com/supercenter/stories/review/0,12070,437926,00.html > >Not even close. This is: >http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/pseries/ > >But it needs a series of chips that are ahh... Discontinued. > >So I would settle for this: >http://www5.compaq.com/AlphaServer/sc/sc_prod_profile.html Two good machines. Problem is that you need two things: (1) a chess engine with source code so you can compile it for those architectures.... neither is a PC-compatible (X86) architecture although the alpha has a facility to execute X86 in an emulated mode; (2) a parallel engine to take advantage of all those processors...
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