Author: Zachariah Amela
Date: 07:52:15 08/19/99
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On August 18, 1999 at 22:04:36, Aloisio Ponti Lopes wrote: >Hey, programmers! Next year it seems that M$/Intel will throw in the garbage all >of your 16-bit programs, just to force you to make another foolish upgrade to >Win2000 and/or a new Pentium processor (64 bit) Actually DOS and 16-Bit programs work fine on the Win2000 Beta. Don't know if the final release will be that way, but it works now. (and of course more >memory...)(not to mention a new and fresh version of MSVC...). Yes, it is a memory hog. No let me re-phrase, it is a HUGH memory hog. Isn't it a good >reason to port Chess Databases and Chess Programs to LINUX ? I congratulate Dr. >Hyatt for his smart vision of a good OS to choose. Couldn't Hiarcs run better on >a LINUX box? Yes, I agree. Linux has some real promise. Win2000 is amazingly fat (800mb!), ultra slow and currently only supports Win32. No Win64 yet. For once we have a real alternative. I hope it doesn't go to waste (remember OS/2 ?). What about the other top chess programs? >I know of course that the US market won't easily accept LINUX, but what about >the rest of the world? (Just to mention our experience, LINUX is a great success A lot of great chess programs run on Unix, Linux and/or Solaris. I haven't seen any "commercial" programs get ported yet, however. >here in Brazil). >I think it's time to wake up. Computer Chess deserves a better OS! No, the world needs a better OS, not just chess programs. As for me, I have my eye on a nice Sun Station ..... >A. Ponti Take care.
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