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Subject: Re: Hiarcs7.32/Fritz5.32 means: semi-windows!?

Author: Tim Mirabile

Date: 14:10:16 06/09/99

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On June 09, 1999 at 10:50:30, Robert Ericsson wrote:

>My only point I tried to make is that many thinks that Fritz is so much
>better than DOS programs because Fritz is 'a windows program'. And that
>is just slightly true as Fritz is no _real_ windows program itself... ;-)

This misses the point.  Can you print from DOS chess programs?  Text only or not
at all for some, right?  Because each program would have to have drivers to
support each and every different kind of printer.  Windows takes care of this.
Can you use different screen resolutions in DOS chess programs?  Same thing.
Fritz also has a Windows help file, with all of the Windows help features.
Compare to similar help files in DOS programs.  Could all of these things be
duplicated in a DOS environment?  Sure, if you want to leave the author no time
to work on the engine.



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