Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Date: 01:05:08 11/12/01
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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? >(UnixWare/SCO/AIX/IRIX/Solaris/NetBSD/OpenBSD/FreeBSD/HP-UX/Digital-Unix) >Would you consider a port of your program for Unix? >2) What's your impression of the Linux market for Chess? >Would you consider a port of your program for Linux? My program runs fine under Unices (it is mainly developed on Linux). I do not think there's a market for selling Unix versions. (that is, if I would consider selling my program at all, which I dont yet) If Microsoft continues it's current policies and makes more and more people angry, perhaps that will change. >3) What do you think about the AMD x Intel struggle? It is good for prices and performance, so it's good for us. The only bad thing about it is that Intel, and lately also AMD are starting to fight more and more on marketing rather than with actual performance of their products. It amazes me what stupid xenophobia or urban legends some people and sellers have versus non-Intel CPU's. >4) Would you consider optimizing the code to run your program using an Alpha >processor? Just as much as I optimize it for my Athlon now. (adding -march=athlon to my compiler flags) >5) Do you agree with Microsoft's idea of "Software Activation" ? Would it be >aplicable to the Unix / Linux World ? It downright stupid and a mayor annoyance. I do think you could pull off similar sillyness on any operating system. >6) What's your impression about 3D graphics and Chess? What about the multimedia >resources? Aren't both 3d and multimedia neglected nowadays? No. 2D boards are much clearer. -- GCP
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