Author: margolies,marc
Date: 14:14:31 10/20/03
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ok pal, you made your point. now i am gonna sell one of my lungs and kidney on e-bay so I can go out and buy a terra-bit of ram. then I gotta build me a mobo which can hold it. and asuming 90 per cent of my system resources are not used to merely arbitrate my hash tables and egtb.s maybe shredder will show an improvement. 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. Interesting, don't you think? >Most likely in a year you will see a chess program in 64bit being tested with >these new CPU's./motherboards/and OS. >Microsoft all ready has an XP, OS in beta for the 64 bit! >I believe we are about to see another giant leap in chess computer programs >performances, ratings ! should be an exciting time for chess programmers! >Shredder is already at 2810, how far will it go ? >Earl
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