Author: Pham Minh Tri
Date: 06:59:40 05/29/01
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On May 28, 2001 at 14:17:32, Christophe Theron wrote: >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. > Just a curious additional question: why do you support DOS when almost all computers nowaday are not installed it? You have not any historical problem, have you? > > Christophe
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