Author: Jeremiah Penery
Date: 21:08:10 03/08/00
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On March 08, 2000 at 23:19:03, Laurence Chen wrote: >On March 08, 2000 at 22:59:43, Aloisio Ponti Lopes wrote: > >>- Pentium III or Athlon? >>- Win9x or WinNT/2000? >> >>A. Ponti >Go for the Pentium III Coppermine if one can afford the $PRICE$ or has a lot of >$$$$ money to burn because the RDRAM is very very very expensive. With that in You can get Coppermines without RDRAM. And for a chess program, RDRAM may be worse than SDRAM, because of higher latency. >mind, I think the most affordable solution is to get an Athlon. As for the OS, >Microsoft decided to stop selling windows NT workstation and NT Terminal Server >4.0, so you don't have much of a choice but Windows 2000 or Windows 9x. >Shredder will run on Windows 2000, and NT is a better OS than Windows 9X and it >does not loads a bunch of drivers which would otherwise eat away the computer >resources. I think it loads just as much as Win98 does, but I could be wrong. However, Win2K does do a _much_ better job of load-handling/time-sharing than 9x. This will cause less timing problems when timing is critical, and it will cause a very slight improvement in performance, because the engine will be getting _slightly_ more CPU time overall.
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