Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 20:16:06 04/27/98
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On April 27, 1998 at 16:57:04, Bert Seifriz wrote:
>On April 26, 1998 at 23:35:28, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On April 25, 1998 at 13:55:37, Bert Seifriz wrote:
>>
>>>On April 25, 1998 at 03:33:15, Dan Newman wrote:
>>>
>>>>On April 25, 1998 at 02:06:29, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On April 25, 1998 at 00:06:01, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>>>
>>>><snip>
>>>>>>
>>>>>There doesn't seem to be any way to turn this behavior of
>>>>CM5000 off. This makes any contest involving CM5000 and
>>>>carried out on one machine potentially unfair
>>>
>>>I would like to agree with that 100 % percent.
>>>Probably you can forget testing on ONE machine completely,
>>>because you never know how many resources program A or B
>>>get from your one machine. On this forum there are many
>>>better experts than I am, but I have never heard that anybody
>>>could be sure your 2 programs get the same chances on 1 machine.
>>>There is no way around 2 identical computers I think. Bert!
>>
>>With DOS programs, there is absolutely no problem. You can turn a DOS
>>program "off" when it is in the background.
>>
>>
>> Christophe
>
>Yes, you are right, but then you lose permanent brain function.
>I was thinking about Windows only. Bert
You should not use permanent brain, even when using Windows programs,
when both programs run on the same computer.
Christophe
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