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Subject: Re: Hammer info. And som SMP musings.

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 10:33:44 03/26/02

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On March 26, 2002 at 09:43:52, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>i didn't know you can buy a power4 for $200 already.

Since when was that a condition of being 64-bit?

>10 years ago many people said: "now we can get 64 bits soon".
>in 2002 i still hear it, i have not seen a 64 bits processor faster
>than a 32 bits processor yet for chessprograms.

Again, where does it say that a 64-bit processor has to be faster than a 32-bit
processor?

No matter how hard you backpedal, you're not going to get out of your idiot
statement that "not a single 64 bits processor is clocked *near* 32 bits
processors."

>Wanna bet with me for some bottle of wine we won't be able to buy in the
>stores here in Netherlands (with the biggest port in the world)

No, because I don't care about you, Diep, or the Netherlands.

-Tom



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