Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 10:41:15 05/28/01
Go up one level in this thread
On May 28, 2001 at 13:27:44, Uri Blass wrote: >On May 28, 2001 at 13:14:43, John Wentworth wrote: > >>I remember when DOS programs were considered much better than their windows >>counter parts, Genius 3 comes to mind. I wonder if Shredder, Fritz etc. were >>rewritten to run in DOS, if they would be stronger than the current windows >>versions. Seems like they would since the windows OS wouldn't be slowing down >>the cpu. Is Crafty running from a windows DOS prompt weaker than if you had >>booted up in DOS and ran it? > >I believe that Dos cannot help chess programs significantly and in most cases it >can only be counter productive. > >I know that a lot of chess programs are written in C and the compilers of >windows are better than the compiler of Dos. > >I read that tiger12 for windows was better than the previous Dos version because >of this fact. > >Even in the cases when Dos can help I believe that it is not important because >being 1-5% faster is not significant. > >Uri I'm so very glad to see that this question has turned into a historical question, rather than a burning issue, arousing great passions and hatreds, reoccuring every few weeks, like it used to. Windows vs Dos was never a significant speed hit. It was just an issue with people who would have drilled holes in their computer's case if they'd thought they could get 10 extra NPS. The DOS compiler and the Windows compiler were the same compiler, by the way. bruce
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.