Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:56:57 10/12/02
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On October 12, 2002 at 09:15:01, Tony Werten wrote: >On October 11, 2002 at 13:06:24, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On October 11, 2002 at 03:03:27, Tony Werten wrote: >> >>>On October 10, 2002 at 12:04:27, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>> >>>>On October 10, 2002 at 10:45:53, Ignacio Urbelz wrote: >>>> >>>>>. >>>> >>>> >>>>How on earth can a program ready to play the world's best chess player _crash_? >>>> >>> >>>Easy, run windows. >>> >>>>Do they test??? >>> >>>Has nothing to do with it. Remember Bill Gates introducing USB ? Blue screen on >>>a pressconference. >>> >>>Tony >> >>I'm not an expert here, but we have lots of 2000 and XP boxes and they are _not_ >>crashing. I >>have 4 computer labs with a total of 75 PCs in them and they run, and run, and >>run... just like >>my linux boxes run. For months or even years at a time (the linux boxes). >>We've had win2000 >>machines run over a year only going down for an upgrade. > >It could be a Fritz problem. It might also be Murphy at her best. > >Tony Were I guessing, I would guess Fritz. Every time we moved Cray Blitz to a new machine with more and faster processors, we encountered yet another timing bug. I doubt they have done a lot of testing on the 8-way box, which is dangerous.
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