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

Author: Eugene Nalimov

Date: 21:37:11 07/07/01

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On July 07, 2001 at 21:48:14, leonid wrote:

>On July 07, 2001 at 16:03:01, Eugene Nalimov wrote:
>
>>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...
>
>All other companies were selling computers or for the price that very few can
>afford, or they miss the attraction of chip that everybody already know to some
>extent. I do expect that prices of the Intel will very quickly go down and that
>new Assembler will have a lot in common with the old one.

You can look at this "new Assembler" at
http://developer.intel.com/design/ia-64/manuals/ it is public information for
several years. And it has *nothing* in common with "the old one".

Plus, right now you can buy Alpha on Sun workstation much cheaper that Itanium
one.

Eugene

>I am amateur that don't have access to the some rare and expensive IBM computers
>that other programmers can enjoy right now.
>
>Leonid.
>
>>
>>Eugene
>>
>>>Leonid.



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