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Subject: Re: CSTal, TASC board and KIP

Author: Chris Whittington

Date: 14:00:57 11/10/97

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On November 10, 1997 at 16:57:06, Keith Ian Price wrote:

>On November 10, 1997 at 09:56:19, Chris Whittington wrote:
>
>>
>>To KIP (whose email I don;t have a copy of):
>>
>>Took a look at the TASC code earlier today; er, the detection code was
>>commented out with a strange comment about setting up some variable.
>>
>>I hacked the code around so that this variable got initialised properly
>>(?),
>>and have built a new version KIPCHESS.ZIP which is now sitting on the
>>Oxford Softworks web site waiting for you to download and test. I can't
>>test it out, because our TASC board is dead. All I know is that the way
>>the detection code has been done doesn't crash the entire system if
>>there is no TASC board connected.
>>
>>I guess I could wriggle around with 'detects all known boards' means
>>'detects all boards known to it' or whatever, but ..... :)
>>
>>If this version doesn't work for you, then I guess TASC support is out
>>the window, sorry.
>>
>>Chris
>
>Thanks. I will download it and let you know as soon as possible. Is this
>the Paris release?

Yes, Paris + TASC code enabled. I rather doubt it will work though :(

> Also, another question: The nps figure given on the
>Tech page generally says 2500-3000 for my P150, but what I have taken to
>be the total nodes processed for current ply, at the bottom, seems to
>increment at 1/3 to 1/4 of that speed. Which is correct?

The 2500-3000

The other figure is the maximum width of the tree, obviously the tree
has some height as well, hence the smaller update rate.

Chris Whittington

>
>Thanks again,
>kp



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