Author: pavel
Date: 02:24:26 11/18/01
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On November 18, 2001 at 03:08:13, Ed Schröder wrote: >On November 17, 2001 at 19:56:06, Christophe Theron wrote: > >>On November 17, 2001 at 16:03:47, Jorge Pichard wrote: >> >>>Chess Tiger 14.6 and Rebel Century 4.0 won the Dutch Open, Congratulations to >>>both Mr. Ed Shroeder and Christophe. >>> >>>http://www.computerschaak.nl/gallery13.html >>> >>>Pichard. >> >> >> >>Note that both programs are mainly developped in DOS. I find this quite funny. >> >> >> >> Christophe > > >Yes, and for those programmers who still use DOS utils for the development >of their engine they better not install XP on their work PC or totally move >to Windows replacements utils first. So far my conclusion is that 16 bit DOS >software is able to run most of the time but most of the 32 bit software is >simply dead. > >Ed To be honest, I dont see any reason as to why people are going for xp so badly. I installed it for 3 hrs, and found out that 50% of program either needs to be reinstalled, not compatible, or needs a patched to be installed. Besides the GUI is so ugly. after 3hrs I went back to my win2k. winxp is just not worth the trouble... pavs
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