Author: Angrim
Date: 23:48:35 11/11/01
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On November 11, 2001 at 23:29:35, Aloisio Ponti Lopes wrote: >My questions: > >1) What's your impression of the Unix market for Chess? dead. >(UnixWare/SCO/AIX/IRIX/Solaris/NetBSD/OpenBSD/FreeBSD/HP-UX/Digital-Unix) >Would you consider a port of your program for Unix? Mine compiles and runs fine under AIX, likely most others. > >2) What's your impression of the Linux market for Chess? small, but based on the number of people on FICS who use linux I would guess that there is a market. >Would you consider a port of your program for Linux? "port"? My main development platform is linux. I might consider a port to windows, but only if MS gave me a free copy of windows 2000, and the latest MS C compiler. >3) What do you think about the AMD x Intel struggle? It is a very good thing for us, rather hard on AMD and Intel. >4) Would you consider optimizing the code to run your program using an Alpha >processor? No, the Alpha line is dead. >5) Do you agree with Microsoft's idea of "Software Activation" ? Would it be >aplicable to the Unix / Linux World ? No, but about as applicable as in the Windows world. >6) What's your impression about 3D graphics and Chess? What about the multimedia >resources? Aren't both 3d and multimedia neglected nowadays? 3d and sound for chess are a waste of time in my opinion. >A. Ponti Angrim
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