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Subject: Re: Where are 64 bits machine?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 13:41:33 03/17/03

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On March 17, 2003 at 16:34:36, leonid wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Where are so long expected 64 bits machines?

Intel stuck the Itanic in the closet.
AMD still looks like it wants to move forward with Hammers/Opterons

>Are they already accessible for "average" person?

Not yet.   You can buy an Itanium, but the price is an unholy fright.

>What chess program was already written for new 64 bits chip?

Any bitboard program.

>Please, say everything that You know about possible massive arrival of 64 bits
>chip.

A few months away yet.  Probably one year before they are cheap.

Of course, you can get a DS10L for a song here:
http://www.hpaq.net/

We just got one for a trade show a couple weeks ago.  Tragically, DEC/Compaq/HP
architecture is dead, dead, dead, dying, dead.



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