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Subject: Re: Junior 5 32 Bit Interface

Author: Bernard Nahrmann

Date: 02:13:44 11/05/98

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On November 04, 1998 at 23:53:26, Komputer Korner wrote:

>On November 03, 1998 at 12:19:44, Freddie wrote:
>
>>Can someone please explain to me why junior 5 uses so much more of my system
>>resources than Fritz 5?  On a 400 Pentium with 128 MB of RAM and Windows 98, I
>>find myself sometimes down to as low as 45% system resources left compared to
>>around 70% when I'm using Fritz 5.  Usually there is always one other
>>application running as well.  Shouldn't junior be able to utilize system
>>resources more efficiently than Fritz?
>>
>>Secondly, do you get a stronger game if you combine 2 engines like Fritz and
>>Hiarcs; one for tactics and the other for positional play or is it better to
>>stick with one engine when running matches between different chess software?
>>
>>Thank you,
>>Freddie.
>
>While Windows is supposed to be a 32 bit OS, is it really? It is more of a
>hybrid and a bad hybrid at that. In fact I would say that WIN9x was the worst OS
>ever sold or given away.  I would say that 16 bit programs fit in better with
>Windows than 32 bit programs.
>I use WIN NT 4 whenever I can and since Fritz 5 and Junior 5 both run in WIN NT
>4 I have no need to run WIN9X for those programs.
>
>As for the 2 engines in automatic play, you should see a small increase in
>strength of play, but nothing major.
>If you have both, you might as well use them.
>--
>Komputer Korner

I too like NT 4.0 much more than Win9x. But it is very bad, that you can´t use
in NT 4.0 the "old" 16Bit-Engines in the 32Bit-programs Chessbase 7.0 and Junior
5.0, because thunks don´t work in NT 4.0.

Bernard



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