Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:35:14 10/13/98
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On October 13, 1998 at 07:48:21, g.müller wrote: >On October 13, 1998 at 03:43:41, Aloisio Ponti Lopes wrote: > >>As Dr. R. Hyatt said, the Alpha CPU is the best to use with Crafty. My question >>is: can Fritz 5.0 be run on an Win NT 4.0 - Alpha 600 MHz CPU with DEC's Digital >>FX!32 software? What about those other "Top Ten" programs? >>A. Ponti >Bobs Programm is in C and this is easy to transporte to many platforms, but >Fritz5 uses Assembler-Routines I think and those routines must be written new >and this is a lot of work for only a very little part of people who use >Alpha-Processors. >And Fritz is fast, about 368000 N/s (PII450) so it will on Alpha not play much >stronger (about 10 Elo), because it will die in the unviersum of searchtree!! >G.Mueller Fritz should work, but the fx!32 emulation really slows things down. So that it would be actually slower than a good PII system. you need to run "native" on the alpha to fly...
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