Author: Don Prohaska
Date: 15:01:08 08/19/98
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On August 19, 1998 at 17:15:52, Bela Andrew Evans wrote: >Does anyone know if the commercial chess programmers will eventually release >multi-processor versions of their programs? I suppose the Fritz people have >already begun working on this, as was reported in the Fritz-Anand mini-match, >but how about Rebel, Hiarcs, etc.? > >With the PII, Xeon, AMD's upcoming K7, and Windows NT all supporting >multi-processors, this would seem to be the next big opportunity to radically >increase the strength of chess programs. If Bob could do it with Crafty, I hope >the commercial programmers won't be far behind. > >Bela Evans I think commercial chess programmers have to think what most of the chess program buying public have for computers. If most of their sales will go to those with Pentium90 computers, I think that is the group they'd most likely program for. Certainly the multi-processors will come in the future. But I think the commercial companies have to think where most of their sales will go. If they spent their time working on programs for main frames, for example, I don't think their sales would be too great. I may be wrong, but I think you have to go where the greater sales are to stay in business and make a few dollars. Don P.
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