Author: stuart taylor
Date: 11:36:49 10/20/03
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On October 20, 2003 at 10:00:09, Earl Fuller wrote: >Well in case some of you have not heard, AMD has released their new Athlon 64 >and the Athlon 64 FX. This is a 64-bit CPU. Yes, it will run 32 bit programs! >and faster ! Whats the big deal ? Well, from what i've read, the fastest 32-bit >desktop CPU's "Athlon XP and the Pentium 4" can only address 4 GB of ram. But, >the new 64-bit can address 256 terabytes of ram. What does this all mean when it comes to chess playing, or potential for chess playing (when hardware and software are well utilized, under this 64bit system)? S.Taylor
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