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

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 06:25:20 07/02/02

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On July 02, 2002 at 08:38:46, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On July 02, 2002 at 02:51:23, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>
>>On July 01, 2002 at 22:01:11, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>Trivial to write a complete opening book facility with book learning?
>>
>>Actually, IIRC you gave them permission to use your code.
>
>No.  _only_ the book learning code.  Not the "book code" itself.  They
>first have to write some sort of interface to their own book format, then
>port the book learning code back into the engine, away from the GUI.  It
>wouldn't be 10 minutes worth of work I wouldn't think...

More than 10 minutes, yes, but in no way a major problem.

They don't even need to be able to read in their books as they
are right now (which seems to be a rather complicated hash based format),
since they can make the original interface translate the book
into something easier to handle.

>Am addressing _both_ of them.  The first is simply porting Fritz from
>windows to unix on an x86 machine.  Non-trivial.

I disagree (already explained why)

>The second is porting
>from X86 to MIPS (or another vendor).  Way more non-trivial.

I agree.

--
GCP



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