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Subject: Re: And What About Hiarcs hardware ???? Anybody know ??

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 07:06:46 06/15/99

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On June 14, 1999 at 17:24:10, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On June 14, 1999 at 12:21:45, James T. Walker wrote:
>
>>On June 14, 1999 at 09:48:40, Randy Schmidt wrote:
>>
>>>I always thought that Fritz5.32 and the like
>>>did not access multi-procs?  Only Crafty did?!
>>
>>If you go to the chessbase site you will see that Fritz has been Multi processor
>>for more than a year.  No need to go commercial with it until Multi-processors
>>are common household items.
>>Jim Walker
>
>
>They already are.. just check out ICC and all the SMP crafty clones there.  I
>have two students in my networking class, both have dual PII machines in their
>dorm rooms.
>
>You can put together a good dual celeron 450+ machine for about what you would
>pay for a single PII/450 machine...  and get a wild performance boost...

Hello Bob,
I guess we just have a different definition of "common household item". :-)
Jim Walker



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