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Subject: Re: Vincent, will you comment on Diep hardware for Maastricht

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 10:10:24 06/30/02

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On June 30, 2002 at 12:21:40, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>It won't be amusing, because all those pigs flying overhead are going to make
>a horrible mess on our cars.  Porting from windows to unix is very non-
>trivial.  xwindows has nothing in common with microsoft windows, except that
>they might "look" the same to an end-user.  It would mean a total-rewrite of
>the GUI, which would be expensive and time-consuming.

For a tournament, a text GUI would be doable.

>For no practical return on the investment.  And with fritz being in asm,
>converting that to a unix assembler would be _another_ bit of fun.

It's not the unix (actually AT&T) syntax that's the problem - the
problem is that it's not an Intel x86 machine. The assembly syntax
conversion itself can be mostly automated.

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GCP



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