Author: Eugene Nalimov
Date: 16:58:08 02/25/00
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On February 25, 2000 at 19:38:23, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >On February 25, 2000 at 15:07:04, paul bedrey wrote: > >> I recently received a comment by a computer chess pro stating that Intel has >>a propriatory Floating Point code and that AMD although close doesn't exactly >>duplicate it. He said it may be why most of my chess programs have problems >>running on my AMD K6 475. Can any programers confirm or deny this? >>I hope I don't have to buy a new cpu just to cure my addiction to chess! >> >>Thanks > >As far as I know, AMD's floating point unit is compatible with Intel's. I believe original talk was about SIMD FP instructions - and here 3D-Now! is incompatible with KNI. But I doubt any chess program use those. Eugene >Chess programs don't do floating point calculations anyway. > >I used to have a K6-2 and ran a large number of chess programs on it. I never >had any problems with any of them. I think you should consider other causes for >your problems. Maybe bad memory? > >-Tom
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