Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 09:52:34 05/29/01
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On May 29, 2001 at 09:59:40, Pham Minh Tri wrote:
>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?
Why do you think I am supporting DOS?
Do I sell a DOS version of my program?
Christophe
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