Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:39:15 07/28/01
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On July 27, 2001 at 15:43:12, Roy Eassa wrote: >With 80 GB hard drives around $200... > >How many of them would it take to have all the following on a single PC: > >o Chessbase 8 with megabase (or whatever they call it) >o Chess Assistant 6 >o "Total Chess Training" >o Fritz 6 >o Junior 7 >o Tiger/Gambit (with the non-CB GUI) >o Shredder 5 >o The 9-CD tablebase that seems popular nowadays, plus any other > equivalently-deep tablebases that may be necessary to support > the above programs (hopefully all can use that single one) >o a couple dozen other freeware engines for CB and/or Winboard >o MS-Office XP Pro >o Windows 2000 >o Norton Systemworks 2001 >o Visual C++ 6 >o Visual Basic 6 >o Some good Java development tools >o about 5 gigs of miscellaneous other non-chess stuff So long as you avoid the 6-piece tablebases, I think all of the above would fit on a single 80G drive with almost half of the drive left over if not more. Of course, once you tackle the 6-piece endings, you can blow the drive with nothing but tablebases...
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