Author: Komputer Korner
Date: 02:21:30 11/08/97
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On November 05, 1997 at 17:51:25, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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.. BUT Bob, doesn't the DEC recompile the code in a translation so that the 2nd time that the code runs, it runs a lot quicker.
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