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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