Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 13:52:33 08/19/99
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On August 19, 1999 at 10:52:15, Zachariah Amela wrote: >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 ..... > Sorry, but that appears to be an oxymoron. Crafty on my PII/300 notebook is over _twice_ as fast as crafty on a sun ultrasparc/300 machine... ;Yes you read that right. _twice_ as fast... >>A. Ponti > >Take care.
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