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Subject: Re: 64-bit Crafty

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 07:26:30 02/19/04

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On February 19, 2004 at 01:32:52, Eugene Nalimov wrote:

>On February 19, 2004 at 01:21:36, Slater Wold wrote:
>
>>On February 19, 2004 at 01:12:57, Russell Reagan wrote:
>>
>>>On February 19, 2004 at 00:59:17, Slater Wold wrote:
>>>
>>>>On February 19, 2004 at 00:33:08, Russell Reagan wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Does Crafty run faster on Opteron or Itanium?
>>>>
>>>>From someone who just spent a bunch of money on a 64bit machine; don't do it.
>>>>
>>>>I would go into all the reasons, but I have to go to bed in the next hour...
>>>
>>>Are you unhappy with the product itself, or the lack of support for it so
>>>far(operating system, compilers, etc.)?
>>
>>The FX51 runs like a champ.  I have no complaints about any of my hardware.
>>
>>It's the lack of support, mainly.
>>
>>I got on the W2003-64 beta, and they sent my v.1069.  Microsoft is on v.3200+
>>now.  :|
>
>1069 and 3200 cannot be directly compared -- different algorithm are used for
>calculating version # from build date for different products.
>
>Thanks,
>Eugene

In the W2003 64bit beta newsgroup, a Microsoft employee openly admitted that
there was a version at least 3 months more current.  However, Microsoft had made
the descion to hold off releasing it, because they are putting all their time
into XP SP2.



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