Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 07:37:09 12/04/97
Hi all: As much as I begun the now long thread about CMP7 and DOS obstinacy, I feel entitled -if you don't mind- to draw some conclusions on the ground of all what has been said here. A) Maybe DOS is a better OS than Windows in terms of this or that technical criteria and even in terms of the speed it gives to this or that program, BUT nobody buy a PC just to run one chess program and getting more hash tables to that ONE chess program. Efficiency has many meanings according what you are using as a measure. As much as you have many programs in your computer, each of them loaded with many instructions and specific push buttons, efficience has less to do with speed that with overall and easy usage of all the computer and all the bunch of programs loaded in it. Efficience means simplicity, not to win or not a fraction of nanosecond or a Mb more or less for hash table. B) I have been, too, a wizard, more or less as all of you, with special floppy disk to launch this or that program and even delighted to tintekering with all that things, but in the same degree as I own more programs, more years of life, more serious work t do and more duties to accomplish, chessic or non chessic, the only thing I want is the most simple way to go into the task I want to do. C) As much as chess programs are stronger and stronger, the need and anxiety to get more speed and hash tables becomes something of a maniatic urge, senseless and even pedantic. Are you going to tell me that you always win to genius 5 IF you don't give to it an additional Mb? Rebel 9 needs 32 Mb in hash instead of perhaps 8 to wipe us as shit without problems? Now that strenght is guaranteed, the focus of attentions is usability, frills and all that things that "elitist" thinks are only for vulgar, idiots, etc people like me that has enough comon sense for not mixing means with ends. I don't care a shit if Windows suck a large shunk of memory, as much as gives to me a more comfortable usage. Of course, I would like a better Windows and, as I have seen in my beta test of w98, this will happens. But, in the meantime, I insist that chess programmers should abandon this obstinacy and think a little more in us, the idiots not interested anymore -o never before- in techies hoopla and blabla. I am not one of those kids that like to disable radios. Purcharsers are adults with money to buy, not genius kids toying with software. They have no time for that. They have no time for configuring anything. And like them I want just to play and I demand the more comfortable program to do that. I think Chris know this, Ed know this, almost all know this. A pity that Marty seems not to know it. Fernando
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