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Subject: Re: fritz 5 ,genius 5, CM5000 etc on Alpha microprocessor based PC

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 14:51:25 11/05/97

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On November 05, 1997 at 16:47:44, Rajen Gupta wrote:

>Since chess Genius 5, Fritz 5, Chessmaster 5000 are supposed to be able
>to run on Windows NT 4.0 and Alpha Microprocessor based computers are
>supposed to be Windows NT compatible, does that mean that the above
>mentioned programmes can run on an windows NT loaded alpha ?.If so, how
>much much faster would they run on an alpha 600 relative to a Pentium II
>300?
>
>i hope some one can clarify this for me.

doesn't work that way.  the above programs are compiled into native X86
architecture instructions...

there is a "thing" that dec provides that lets the alpha emulate the x86
architecture, but it slows the program down significantly...

a pure C program could be recompiled, but source is not distributed, and
some (fritz/genius come to mind) are written in X86 assembler anyway..



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