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Subject: Re: How soon will come 64 bits chip and from what company?

Author: Eugene Nalimov

Date: 13:03:01 07/07/01

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On July 07, 2001 at 15:28:00, leonid wrote:

>On July 06, 2001 at 20:43:05, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On July 06, 2001 at 20:34:59, leonid wrote:
>>
>>>Hello!
>>>
>>>Recently somebody said that later this year we can expect Intel's 64 bits. It
>>>look like it is only possibility and nothing more, since Intel promiss this chip
>>>since 1997. Maybe somebody from you do have some fresh knowledge about  possible
>>>appearance of 64 bits chip.
>>
>>COMPAQ (formerly DEC) in 1996 (or was it 1995?).
>>Unfortunately, the Alpha chip has been officially killed just recently.
>>
>>>Never mind if it will be Intel, AMD or some other
>>>company. Your personal idea about 64 bits influence on chess programming is very
>>>welcomed.
>>
>>Intel is shipping I64 stuff now.
>
>News is so wonderful that it is difficult for me even believe into it. But
>finally it came!!!!!!! Real good!

Why it is so wonderful? A lot of companies sell 64-bit systems for many years --
DEC/Compaq, SUN, IBM (based on 3 different CPUs), SGI/MIPS...

Eugene

>Leonid.



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