Author: Bo Persson
Date: 04:51:06 08/15/03
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On August 14, 2003 at 11:02:05, Mikael Bäckman wrote: >On August 14, 2003 at 10:48:20, Bob Durrett wrote: > >>According to the SSDF list, the top engines are Junior, Shredder, Fritz, Tiger, >>etceteras. They are all 32 bit. >> >>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! > >ALL 32-bit software will run on AMD64. They may not use 64-bit instructions, but >they will run. And the machine will be more expensive! I believe Bob isn't afraid of the machine as such, but of spending all his money on something the programs can't take advantage of. If you run 32-bit software *only*, a "cheap" P4/3.2 will do just as well. :-) Bo Persson
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