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Subject: Re: How much hard-drive space do I need for endgame tablebases?

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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