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Subject: Re: Survey proposal: Importance of Auto232 compatibility

Author: Moritz Berger

Date: 02:06:34 09/11/98

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On September 10, 1998 at 22:19:36, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On September 10, 1998 at 21:14:21, Keith Ian Price wrote:
>
>>On September 10, 1998 at 13:11:24, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On September 09, 1998 at 21:26:18, Keith Ian Price wrote:

>>>I agree totally.  the Auto232 standard is gross.  Completely gross.  There are
>>>many better ways to accomplish this task.
<snip>
>>>I would
>>>be more than happy to sit down with a group and work out a standard
>>>communication interface that is easy to implement, easy to parse, and easy to
>>>understand how it is supposed to work.

I don't think that your approach is likely to succeed:

- before Auto232 there was no standard. None of the commercial guys even talked
about this, there were always rumors about proprietary autoplayers to gain
competitive advantage by testing against competitors.

- it's hard enough to keep Auto232 in the present form as a default in
commercial programs, e.g. just look at the Fritz 5 and Rebel 10 discussions.

- Probably nobody will take the pains to retrofit your "hyatt autoplayer" onto
Genius, Rebel, M-Chess, Hiarcs, Fritz, Shredder, Nimzo, ... An autoplayer that
exclusively works with Crafty and Nero is worthless to me.


Moritz



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