Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 17:09:50 04/29/98
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On April 29, 1998 at 10:19:20, Kevin Mulloy wrote: > Good morning guys! Thanks for your help on the "dual 333 processor >question." It helped me in my decision. Now for the operating system: >I have Hiarcs6, Fritz 5, Chess Genius Gold, M-Chess 7.0, Chess >assistant, Bookup, Tasc Chess CD, Chessica, BFTC and CM5500 as well as >about 30 other older versions of these and other chess programs. I >found an article on another chess site that mentioned a list of programs >that would run on windows NT 4.0. Several of my programs were on the >list. What the article failed to mention was -- Is NT or Windows 95/98 >the better operating system to run the newest programs on? I am mainly >concerned with search speeds from databases and the actual speed of the >chess engines themselves. Can most newer engines be "tuned" to run >under NT? Will the direction of the chess engine of the future be in >NT? > Thanks in advance for any help that you could give me. I'll share >results of my testing as soon as I can get going here. Hi: Seems that W98, commercial release -non any of the beta that are wandering in thousands of computers these days- is nearer what we waited for. An electronic engineur friend of mine has told me that W98 handles mamory in a similar way than OS-2 warp, that is to say, linear style. Maybe he is wrong, but other evidence point to the fact that W98, final commercial version. is beginning to implement something a lot better in memory handling. Somebody posted here about the same. NT, is great, but does not handles many programs. Fernando
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