Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 11:17:32 05/28/01
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On May 28, 2001 at 13:41:15, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>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
In the case of the compiler used for Tiger 12 it was not the same. I was using
GCC for the DOS version and MSVC6 for the Windows version. I think that MSVC6
cannot produce DOS executables, correct me if I'm wrong.
Christophe
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