Author: Kunnar Klauks
Date: 02:10:19 08/27/02
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>Well, operating systems are becoming a comodity. A program should not really >care what the operating system is that it runs under. As far as a chess program >is concerned, the engine has nothing to do with the operating system. It is >generally written in C and at least the engine portion should be able to compile >on any platform that supports C. The GUI is where the problem is and that >really should not be a problem. But many commercial engines are written largely in assembler and porting assembler is not as easy. AFAIK its maybe simpler to port from Windows to Linux if you use only intel processors, but for example porting Windows program written in assempler to a some Linux version running on MAC PPC hardware is harder. Kunnar
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