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Subject: Re: New processorgeneration and chessprograms

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 13:48:57 02/06/99

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On February 06, 1999 at 05:36:44, Hannu Wegner wrote:

>
>Hi,
>Thank you for your answers. I see that most of you do favorite the
>Alpha-processor. The problem is, that I as a user of comercial chessprograms
>cannot use this processor because of the incompabilty to the most comercial
>chessprograms. So I think that AMD-processors should be a good choice. But I
>would like to know how fast the K6-3 or the K7 will be when I compare them to
>the K6-2. I also would like to know if the Pentium III will be really better
>than a Pentium II or a Celeron.
>
>I have heard that Kryotech will release a AMD K6-2 with 600 (overclocked) at the
>Cebit.
For the Alpha chip, support is very easy.  You just recompile with a very
similar makefile. We sell software here at SolutionsIQ where I work (ODBC
drivers) and we support Alpha just the same as Intel.
Since the code is identical, it takes nothing extra to support the new CPU.



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