Author: Robin Smith
Date: 17:22:38 03/24/01
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On March 24, 2001 at 19:10:46, Mike S. wrote: >On March 24, 2001 at 18:27:17, Pete Galati wrote: > >>On March 24, 2001 at 18:06:38, liam hearns wrote: >>>write a program like rebel in dos ???????????great program but why all theses >>>years in dos? >> >>I like Dos, don't know about anyone else, but I like it. > >Me too. Furthermore, Century runs fine in Windows AFAIK (somebody please correct >me if I'm wrong), just some MB RAM gets "wasted" this way. Some time ago, I did >performance comparisons with Rebel 9 IIRC, running with the same hash size first >in DOS, and then in Windows. If you have no other program running, there is >virtually no performance impact from Windows (strange situation, when "no >performance impact" is a positive result... :o) > >I don't have the latest versions, but I think, with a proper windows installer >which produces all the usual icons etc., the difference shouldn't matter that >much. > >On the other hand, what a DOS program lacks in Windows, are the data exchange >functions via copy & paste, i.e. while browsing a website (especially important >for chess message board readers). Maybe there are more examples like this I'm >not aware of. > >Regards, >M.Scheidl A BIG problem running Century from within windows, is you can't have century doing one thing while you also use the computer for something else. If you put Century in the background it stops thinking, even on a dual CPU machine.
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