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Subject: Re: Die Win XP ! Die !

Author: Hristo

Date: 12:05:04 08/06/01

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On August 06, 2001 at 14:38:25, Artem Pyatakov wrote:

>Please do not accept these kinds of reports to be FACTUAL and ABSOLUTE reports
>about Windows XP. I have been testing XP for about 5 months now, and I am
>extremely happy with its 1) performance 2) stability 3) new features.
>
>Windows XP is just as stable as Win2K, has new added features and even kernel
>enhancements in some areas (such as memory management), which could benefit
>chess programs.

Have you seen improvement in the NPS for crafty?
We (@ work) use  a lot of memory manipulation for RF signal generation
and there seems to be no speed improvement. However a normal (average)
signal is 500M-Samples (2GB) in size ... chess programs normally don't deal
with such large chunks of memory.

regards.
hristo

p.s.
   Govorite po ruskii?

>
>Pete, I am not sure what kind of experience you had with XP or what you tried to
>delete. All I know is that I have not seen any problems triple booting between
>Win98, Win2k and XP.
>
>I definitely disagree that XP is more than a virus than an OS, and especially if
>you are using Windows 9x right now, you should see DRAMATIC improvement in
>performance and stability.
>
>I usually do not like to get invoved in somewhat off-topic issues like these,
>but this struck me as a gross representation of XP as a viable OS.
>
>Artem



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