Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 10:28:42 12/02/02
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On December 02, 2002 at 04:33:46, David Rasmussen wrote: >On December 01, 2002 at 22:24:39, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >> >> >>Actually that did not happen. Crafty was initially developed on a cray. >>A real 64 bit machine. With more bandwidth in one processor than a roomfull >>of PCs... > >I know that, that's why I wrote "(in the x86 world)". We're talking about the >x86 architecture here. And the way you have dealt with that architecture in >regard to Crafty, is to use Intel chips as long as I can remember. You have a >quad xeon which you are very happy with. When it comes to x86, Crafty has been >most extensively tested on that machine, I gather. And of course it shows. > >/David The complete history of Crafty goes like this: Started on the Cray. Moved to a sun UltraSparc Later to a pentium/133 Then to a pentium-pro which was light-years beyond any competitor Then on to the xeon 400, 550 and (at present 700) although it has been run on the AMD machines quite a bit, as the last WMCCC we competed in used a dual AMD. It will eventually run on a dual 2.8 xeon some or all of the time also...
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