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Subject: Re: News from the future...

Author: Jason Williamson

Date: 13:39:52 05/17/01

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On May 17, 2001 at 15:12:08, Ed Schröder wrote:

>On May 17, 2001 at 14:54:23, Jason Williamson wrote:
>
>>On May 17, 2001 at 13:33:32, Ed Schröder wrote:
>>
>>>On May 17, 2001 at 12:19:11, Aloisio Ponti Lopes wrote:
>>>
>>>>May 17, 2010.
>>>>
>>>>***** NEW REBEL SOFTWARE ! ******
>>>>
>>>>The good news:
>>>>
>>>>The long-awaited new Rebel software ships today. Rebel 20 comes with many nice
>>>>features, the best of them is a nice 3D board. All 10-9-8-7-6-5-4 pieces Nalimov
>>>>tablebases available. CAP and CAT data in 2 full FMD disks. There are 50
>>>>different personalities to play. Opening book with 4 billion moves, all of them
>>>>commented by Human World Champion A. Shirov, will fit in only 300 GB of
>>>>hard-disk space. A marvelous program!
>>>>
>>>>In this new version there's support for infrared-port comp-comp matches. No
>>>>cables!
>>>>
>>>>The bad news: it STILL runs only in DOS.
>>>
>>>Yes!
>>>
>>>
>>>>You'll have to buy a DOS boot disquette
>>>
>>>
>>>Wrong!
>>>
>>>Rebel 20 will have a Windows emulator!
>>>
>>>Ed
>>>
>>
>>You mean we will have to run DOSEmu in Linux, then a windows emulator?  AHHH!
>>Scary!  :)
>
>Consider the advantages, a bug free Windows :-)
>
>Ed

What, you don't think Windows2010 will have all the bugs out of it?  :)



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