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

Author: Eugene Nalimov

Date: 14:46:03 08/14/03

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On August 14, 2003 at 17:30:00, Martin Andersen wrote:

>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.

Exactly the other way. On Itanium2 software emulation of x86 is much faster than
direct hardware support :-)

Thanks,
Eugene

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

• Re: When Will the Top Chess Programs be 64 bit? Martin Andersen 15:07:17 08/14/03
  • Anandtech is correct here Anthony Cozzie 05:41:58 08/15/03
    • Re: Anandtech is correct here Bo Persson 12:02:16 08/17/03
  • Re: When Will the Top Chess Programs be 64 bit? Eugene Nalimov 15:36:51 08/14/03
    • Re: When Will the Top Chess Programs be 64 bit? Dann Corbit 12:08:36 08/15/03
      • Re: When Will the Top Chess Programs be 64 bit? Eugene Nalimov 14:28:04 08/15/03

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