Author: Don Dailey
Date: 15:04:58 12/25/97
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On December 25, 1997 at 15:18:02, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Hi Don: >A simple question: do you have plans to deliver a new PC program like >those you delivered years ago with Kaufman? Cilkchess is not, it seems >to me, for just PC owners. Or it is? And if not, aren't you thinking in >a commercial version of it? Etc. No matter how many programs we have, we >always want somethin new and differenrt. And of course, Merry Xmas. >fernando I would like to accomodate you guys with a public domain version that will run on Windows. But the program is only a few weeks old and its first outing was at the Dutch Championship which it was not ready to play in. I want to build a nice X windows interface for linux/windows first and then will look at the Windows 95 port. But the program is designed for parallel machines and Unix so it will involve some work. Also it is a 64 bit program and unusually slow on Pentiums which is essentially 32 bit. I may be able to salvage the speed if I spend some time optimizing it for the Pentium. Are there any GUI interfaces available for windows so that I do not have to do any serious interface work? I would consider a port sooner if I could avoid this hassle. The program easily and quickly compiles in serial version mode and I doubt I'll have any trouble porting the actual engine. I can run the program using Xboard too and I know there is a port for Windows but the features in Xboard are almost non-existant. We also have a guy here porting CILK our parallel language to Windows. SMP's are getting very cheap and within a couple of years I'll bet a lot of you guys have them in your homes! -- Don
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