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Subject: Re: Dual Core PPC970 in 2005 (OT)

Author: Daniel Clausen

Date: 13:03:46 07/27/04

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On July 27, 2004 at 15:56:30, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On July 27, 2004 at 15:44:26, Daniel Clausen wrote:
>
>>On July 27, 2004 at 11:17:39, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>[snip]
>>
>>>About 7-8 years ago when I did the parallel search for Crafty, many said "why?
>>>that will only apply to special-purpose machines and not mainstream computing."
>>>
>>>I replied that within a few years, _every_ machine will have two or more
>>>processors.  This is the beginning of that prophesy.  In another few years all
>>>programs will either be parallel or "loser". :)
>>
>>Well, if you're concentrating on the PDA/smartphone market, you shouldn't be a
>>loser in the next few years if your main focus is not on parallel search.
>>
>>Of course, if you want to fight for the WCCC title, you won't have a chance w/o
>>parallel search.
>>
>>Sargon
>
>Want to make a wager as to when the PDAs will have dual-core CPUs?
>
>It won't be _that_ long...

Even then, it won't matter much, as people playing chess on a PDA want to play
by themselves. They don't play engine matches as we crazy freaks here.

IMHO, YMMV etc :)

Sargon



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