Author: David Blackman
Date: 03:47:14 12/24/00
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64 bit chips have been widely available since about 1990. Crafty runs fine on them. A few of the other top programs also work on 64 bit CPUs but as far as i know the public can't get hold of copies. When (or if) Itanium and Sledgehammer arrive, Crafty will work on them almost immediately. In fact the Itanium port has been done, and will no doubt be released as soon as you can get the chip. I haven't heard of anyone doing a Sledgehammer port, but it could be done easily, and it's possible someone might have done it quietly. For the commercial programs, i think about half of them will be available pretty quickly as soon as the chips start to sell to the public. The guys that wrote a lot of code in assembler will be sweating a bit though, and might be a bit slower to catch up.
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