Author: KarinsDad
Date: 15:43:53 07/18/00
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On July 18, 2000 at 14:00:29, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On July 18, 2000 at 10:36:08, Gordon Rattray wrote: > >>Sorry if this has been asked before... >> >>How much hard-drive space do I need if I want to use 5 piece endgame tables? >> >>Is it feasible to construct these using the program supplied on, say, the Junior >>CD (using a PIII 800 with 256Mb RAM roughly)? Or is it better to download them? >> I've only ever previously constructed the 4 piece tablebases using the CD. >> >>Thanks in advance for any advice >> >>Gordon > > >You need a total of about 7.5 gigs of space, if you used them in compressed >format as most everyone is doing (compressed files are actually faster on almost >all machines due to reduced I/O bandwidth). > >Building them is a huge task. Downloading works better. > >Or buying the 12-CD set (someone is selling this). What we need is a DVD version so that the program can get them directly from the DVD drive. Of course, this would have to be a DVD-9 standard (7.9 gig) in order for 7.5 gig to fit, but there would be enough room to put Crafty on as well. ;) ;) KarinsDad :)
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