Author: fca
Date: 15:45:07 04/06/98
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On April 03, 1998 at 13:20:49, Don Prohaska wrote:
>I just remembered. When I had Windows 3.11 I had Chessica and CM4000
>installed. And I was able to play the two against each other. I would
>just leave them both booted. After one program made a move I'd just hit
>alt-tab and up pops the other program. No problem. In the beginning
>CM4000 would always beat Chessica very easily, even when CM was moving
>at less than 10sec a move and Chessica took about 3 minutes. What is
>strange {after writing a nasty letter to the seller) that when I reduced
>the hash in Chessica it played very much better. The lower the hash, the
>better it played! I don't know. It might have had something to do with
>the Window 3.11 memory. Other programs worked well also. Fritz4 would
>not want to calculate, but you could move manually without analysis. I
>think I was able to use Genius also. Anyway, it is possible with some
>programs.
An aside: resource allocation *by Windows* between two such programs,
Don, is liable to have a profound effect on relative performance
assuming permanent brain is switched on in both... you will not be in
control of such time allocation. So conclusions about relative
strengths of two co-resident programs in a multi-tasking environment are
liable to be fraught! :-)
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