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Subject: Re: Some questions to chess programmers

Author: Ulrich Tuerke

Date: 03:28:19 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?
>
>3) What do you think about the AMD x Intel struggle?
>
>4) Would you consider optimizing the code to run your program using an Alpha
>processor?

Isn't the axp architecture dead, or at least dying ?
I can say that Comet on a PC performed much better than on a alpha with same
clock cycle. I was rather disappointed from the axps regarding performance of
chess programs. Perhaps the bitboard programs could win a bit on this 64 bit
architecture.

Uli


>
>5) Do you agree with Microsoft's idea of "Software Activation" ? Would it be
>aplicable to the Unix / Linux World ?
>
>6) What's your impression about 3D graphics and Chess? What about the multimedia
>resources? Aren't both 3d and multimedia neglected nowadays?
>
>A. Ponti



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