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

Author: leonid

Date: 05:55:22 07/08/01

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On July 08, 2001 at 00:37:11, Eugene Nalimov wrote:

>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".

Thanks! Will go to look into this site. Yesterday tried to find something
through Intel site but found nothing practical. The most I expect to buy some
books with Assembler and Intel chip design. Chip internal structure will be very
interesting for me to read. Even if this time everything is new, I am ready to
find everything from zero.

Leonid.

>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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