Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 12:49:08 08/06/01
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On August 06, 2001 at 15:20:47, Peter Berger wrote:
>I have a fast PC now ( mainly because of computerchess ;-) ) and what do I run
>on it ? WindowsME ;-) - yes , the often blamed one.
>
>It came with my PC and I couldn't find a good reason to destroy it as it works
>reasonably well.
>
>The speed race surprises me often when it is about computerchess performance .
>It's interesting to look at the additional ELO performance you get if you DOUBLE
>the speed of your system . Those 5-10 % which look like the absolute maximum a
>better OS could give look _so_ meaningless then ..
>
Most people here seem a lot more concerned about stability and capacity than raw
speed, when recommending switching from Win9x/ME to WinNT/2000/XP.
The former cannot handle running several chess engines at the same time plus a
high-end chess database program plus Internet Explorer plus MS-Office
components. They run out of resources in one of the still-existing 64k resource
blocks ("GDI" and "User"), no matter how much RAM and disk space you have. The
latter OSs can. The fact that they also run 'em a bit faster is just gravy.
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