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Subject: Re: When Will the Top Chess Programs be 64 bit?

Author: Martin Andersen

Date: 14:30:00 08/14/03

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On August 14, 2003 at 11:03:50, Uri Blass wrote:


>>I am afraid to purchase a 64 bit computer because the only chess software that
>>would run on it is Crafty, and the database managers such as ChessBase would be
>>useless too!
>
>32 bit programs can run on a 64 bit computer.

Yes, but 32 bit programs will run slowly on a pure 64 bit
computer like Intel Itanium, because the system needs to emulate
32 bit in software.

AMD64 and Opteron run 32 bit programs very fast, due to hardware
compability.
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>Uri

Martin.



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