Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba
Date: 10:46:36 07/05/99
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On July 04, 1999 at 11:31:11, Zachariah Amela wrote: >I am considering installing a Unix variant on one of my PC's and had a few >questions for all. > >1.) What Unix system would you recommend for an x86 machine? Linux, Unixware, >SunOS, GNU, FreeBSD, etc.? Keep in mind cost and ease of use considerations. > >2.) What chess applications exist for the above mentioned systems and what ones >would you recommend? Xboard will run in most of them, if not all. The following chess engines run in Solaris on Sparc and the source code is distributed, it should be easy to compile them for Solaris on x86: crafty, exchess, faile, gnuchess, olithink and phalanx. > Are there strong Unix-based chess programs available? Crafty, and it is very strong. >What is this "Dark Thought" system I hear about? > It is a very strong chess program by Ernst Heinz and Marcus Hille. You can find its homepgage in the links section of the Computer Chess Resource Center. >3.) Multi-processor systems! What can you tell me about this incredible >concept? How does it work? How might I take advantage of it? What OS's >support it? In this realm I am quite the beginner, so anything information >would be most gratefully accepted. > Solaris has full support of symmetric multiprocessing. You need applications that take advantage of it, and the only chess one I am aware of is crafty. >Thank you!
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