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"Core blimey" About Truespace Archives These pages are a copy of the official truespace forums prior to their removal somewhere around 2011. They are retained here for archive purposes only. "Core blimey" // Hardware 1  |   Order by default Post by CdeB // Nov 8, 2006, 6:28am CdeB Total Posts: 160 The news is better than the pun..., I hope :D After detecting patience wearing thin on tS7-and upwards, I just got a flyer saying that Dell is about to start selling 4 core processor machines (4 cores on one chip), the next significant step in the road to the multicore future Roman foresaw and steered the new tS code to exploit. The fact that Dell are doing it indicates to me that it is not just specialised workstations but the mass-market that is going to run with this. I think this shows Roman's instincts are right and despite the half-way house we find ourselves in now the ship is being steered in the right direction...to quote Robert Browning.."grow old along with me, the best is yet to be". And before you think I have literary pretensions..this is a quote remembered from the beginning of an Isaac Asimov Sf novel...not a book of poems...;) Post by DanD // Nov 9, 2006, 11:00am DanD Total Posts: 2 AMD is also planning their version of a quad core. They also claim that it'll be faster than Intels . It'll be on a single silicon wafer rather than on 2 that are stuck together. Dan Post by Alien // Nov 12, 2006, 5:32pm Alien Total Posts: 1231 Yeah, multiple cores would be nice, & I someday hope to have a dual/multi-core system, but my hopes are set a little further down the road. 1 of the Devs has already said that the new code in tS7 has been made such that it could be recompiled to 64bit, but there's no point doing it yet as whilst the new code is 64bit-ready, the old code isn't. Still, it gives us something else to look forward to - when Caligari removes the bridge & Modeler, we could have a 64Bit v. of tS. Just think - no more 32bit memory limit! :D

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