Author: John Lowe
Date: 11:26:16 12/23/02
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On December 23, 2002 at 14:07:48, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On December 23, 2002 at 14:01:56, John Lowe wrote: > >>On December 23, 2002 at 13:22:34, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >> >>>On December 23, 2002 at 13:19:35, John Lowe wrote: >>> >>>>On December 23, 2002 at 13:03:44, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >>>> >>>>>On December 23, 2002 at 12:13:33, John Lowe wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>Thanks Vincent. >>>>>> >>>>>>Do you help a lot of learners? >>>>> >>>>>if you talk to me at icc or icq then sure. dozens i have helped. >>>>> >>>>>at CCC well what do i need to say about bob's own computer chess club ? :) >>>> >>>>So you were rubbed up the wrong way in a slightly different thread - was I to >>>>know? >>>> >>>>Now tell me what's wrong with that scheme on a P75 >>>> >>>>Taint much but it's all I can afford! >>> >>>If you just knew how much i had to laugh when seeing it all quoted >>>in hexadecimal :) >>> >>>wonder how u plan to make an eval in hexadecimal :) >> >>Sorry if I'm slow - I'm cooking dinner in the U.K........ >> >>Like I did 20 - odd years ago I program in assembly. I've a lot of catching up >>to do but I'm too old to learn "C". >> >>Hexadecimal is a more natural system in assembler. > >The good old hexadecimal times!!!!!!! > >I hope though you realize that 8 bits is very slow on the P4 and 64 bits >cpu's. > >So don't hesitate to use EAX instead of AL and AH to store a single square >or even new releases of P4s which might get fast in the future will still >be slow for you compared to a k7 ;) My handling of EAX is coming along fine (and I've just served dinner for Sandra) My last reference to extended registers was in a conversation with Uri a couple of days ago. Of course I'll need a better processor if I'm going to compete with world champions = but some of us just want to get better not necessarily be the best. Chat again some other time? John
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