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Subject: Re: Computer with 8 Ghz and 8 GB RAM

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 09:33:23 12/19/02

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On December 19, 2002 at 05:07:25, Matt Taylor wrote:

>On December 19, 2002 at 03:02:07, Brandon wrote:
>
>>If I'm not mistaken, I think I see "Windows 2000 Professional" in that computer
>>description... that OS only supports up to 2 GB RAM and 2 cpus I believe. If you
>>want to use those 8 cpus and all 8 GB of RAM, you'll need Windows 2000 Advanced
>>Server or better...
>>
>> - Brandon S.
>
>Good point.
>
>Curious, too. I went and glossed over the site out of interest, and I was only
>given an option for Win2K Advanced Server or RedHat. For the purpose of Chess,
>*nix could very well be better as Windows machines like to do a lot of things
>behind your back (like updating themselves every other week because of some new
>IIS attack). Not very cool when those extra cycles could be spent on real
>computation.
>
>-Matt


Do as I do here.  _all_ windows boxes are behind a firewall.  And they are _not_
allowed to open such connections.  :)




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