Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 15:36:58 05/02/01
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On May 02, 2001 at 14:46:03, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>On May 02, 2001 at 13:47:15, Ed Schröder wrote:
>
>>
>>I started with a SMP version perhaps even earlier then Stefan.
>>
>>Ed
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>
>
>This says two things:
>
>1. You have finally moved to windows, since SMP in DOS is not possible.
>(or Linux or whatever, of course).
It is actually of course possible.
Don't tell me you can't imagine ways to do it.
Christophe
>2. You also chose to keep your effort secret for reasons that I won't try
>to determine or understand.
>
>But again, here, you pay your money and take your chances. If you keep an
>SMP version secret, then you can't realistically expect anyone to ask you to
>enter it in an important event.
>
>I don't buy the "they should have asked." They could just as easily say
>"you should have told us."
>
>Since neither program has played a public game, it is hard for me to determine
>how "serious" all this really is. It could range anywhere from "vaporware"
>to "sort of working" to "really good parallel performance". If it is the
>latter, then keeping it secret _really_ makes no sense. If it is one of
>the former, then wanting it considered makes no sense. In short, it makes no
>sense to me, period... no matter what has happened.
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