Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 19:17:28 05/07/01
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On May 06, 2001 at 16:19:56, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:
>...
>>>
>>>I remember very well, that Chris had strongly argued against the SMP techniques
>>>here in this forum. Didn't look like he was working on this. At least to me, it
>>>came as a complete surprise that there will be a SMP tiger soon.
>>>
>>>Regards, Uli
>>>
>>
>>How could it _possibly_ have come as a surprise? It seems everyone but me
>>is clairvoyant. Or is _supposed_ to be?
>>
>>:)
>
>I guess, you mean that you expected the smp tiger coming so soon ?
>
>My be I missed something. I remember very well, that here in CCC Chris hadn't
>shown much interest in smp techniques.
>
>Or am I confusing things ?
>
>Uli
I do not know what you call "Chris hadn't shown much interest in smp
techniques".
What I have said, to summarize:
* SMP is not going to be the mainstream in the future (middle-term future, say 5
to 10 years). Now that I have officially announced Chess Tiger for Palm you can
better understand this statement of mine.
* I have written a long article about the relative strength of a typical
single-CPU computer and a typical dual computer. I stressed out the fact that
the dual had not a significant strength advantage, unless you are ready to put
big money on it ("big" has then been discussed in length).
From this, some people have speculated a lot about what I could do and what I
could not do. And will keep on speculating I suppose...
Christophe
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