Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 15:20:04 10/23/01
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On October 23, 2001 at 17:36:41, Thomas Mayer wrote: >Hi Joshua, > >> So is Crafty The Only Program to work on the more powerfull unix systems? > >there are definitely more, I believe that Ferret will play on that, also Diep. >Also Amy is in ANSI-C and might work fine on those fast systems. I remember that >Rudolf Huber has a version of SOS that might compile in this environment, same >to Roland Pfister and his Patzer. > >Greets, Thomas > >P.S.: AFAIK the engine of Shredder is also in ANSI-C, so it is good possible >that Stefan Meyer-Kahlen can compile an Alpha-Shredder... but from a commercial >point of view I can understand all those company's - what do you think how many >Alpha-Shredder's or Fritz's could be sold ??? You will likely find that _most_ programs (Ferret qualifies here I believe) are written using Microsoft's threading library, which is not the same thing available on Unix platforms. i.e. POSIX threads have a different API from the windows threads library. That would require a bit of work to handle. Perhaps a _lot_ if some of the more unusual windows APIs are used... Crafty will generally work on any SMP platform that uses unix, plus it has a special port for windows as well. I have no idea what other programs are unix-compliant...
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