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Subject: Re: Virtual PC, MaC OS, and chess programs

Author: Matthew Hull

Date: 11:30:39 07/08/04

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On July 08, 2004 at 14:05:06, Gerald Grimsley wrote:

>Hello, I am thinking of buying an Apple Laptop, and would like to run a windows
>environment for some of the chess programs.  Does anyone have any experience
>doing this, problems, bugs, etc.?
>Thanks in advance,
>Gerald



It will be very bad for chess if you run x86 based chess programs.  The x86
instruction set is emulated in software.  You will get miserable NPS for your
progs.



But, you can compile many free source chess progs for Max OS X.  They run great
on that hardware.



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