Author: David Blackman
Date: 03:23:33 09/15/99
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On September 14, 1999 at 02:04:09, Jouni Uski wrote: >I wonder if it makes any sense to write program for multi uP PCs? I think >they are only used as servers. But how many private persons really owns one? >I quess, that also in 2000s home PCs have only one main prosessor. > > >Jouni Apparently the Quake people are working on an SMP version of that. Presumably to run on Linux, since Win98 doesn't do SMP. Games will probably be a significant part of the computer market, especially for computers which are not the cheapest/slowest you can buy. So i think SMP will take off in the mid-range, even for home game machines. The dual celeron machines are quite cheap and i already know a few home users who have them. SMP chess would be a small market now but i think may be about 20% to 40% of the market within 3 years. Of course the extra 60 rating points for 2 way SMP is pretty irrelevant for most computer chess buyers who are already at least 1000 points weaker than their computers. But that won't stop them.
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