Author: Stuart Cracraft
Date: 18:07:14 05/09/98
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On May 09, 1998 at 15:49:13, Jan-Frode Myklebust wrote: > >The differens is that robofics can be run on a shell account, and >doesn't need to display anything graphically on your computer. Therefore >it doesn't requier you to stay online to have the program running. > >Regards, >Jan-Frode Although it can be nice to see the chess game in progress. At least the plain text output of what's going over the link could be shown in a dumb-terminal window so that one could watch a game if attending, otherwise iconify the window for background unattended operation. Seems reasonable to sugges tthat robofics be ported to Windows 95. Heck, a 400mhz home Pentium would be of use to the whole family running Windows 95 and could be shared with program development needs like robofics would facillitate. But if I were forced to run Unix only (by the way, I'm a Unix-type in real life so I am not anti-Unix), then I'd lose access to a lot of free Windows software and other who use my notebook would have to know Unix. Of course, I could install Windows and Unix on my notebook and use robofics presumably from it booted as Unix over the PPP/Winsock connection presumably? But the thought of going to all the work of dumping my disk off to tape, doing all the work to repartition it and then install Linux and Windows 95, just to get a platform from which I can do unattended ICS play for my chess program leaves me a little, well, shall we say, hesitant. --Stuart
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