Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 19:06:40 09/18/99
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On September 18, 1999 at 16:02:36, Mark Young wrote:
>On September 18, 1999 at 15:40:08, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On September 18, 1999 at 11:42:38, blass uri wrote:
>>
>>>On September 18, 1999 at 10:01:04, Masciulli Gianluigi wrote:
>>>
>>>>I was reading an article by prof. Giovanni Righini (university of Milan) titled
>>>>"L'eredita' di Deep blue" on the italian chess monthly "Scacco!"
>>>>
>>>>I almost falled from my chair when i red:
>>>>"....
>>>>E' da anni che il software scacchistico non migliora piu'
>>>>..."
>>>>
>>>>(trad. No step forward in chess software in the last years)
>>>>
>>>>I want say that Righini is one of best italian expert in CC, and he in the
>>>>article esplain that the progress in the last years is mainly by hardware.
>>>>So I don't want to contest anything to prof. Righini but im just puzled in
>>>>this may be true or not.
>>>
>>>It is not truth that there is no step forward in chess software in the last
>>>years.
>>>
>>>There are always new and better programs.
>>>
>>>Genius3 was the best program some years ago and Genius did no step or almost no
>>>step forward but other programmers did steps forwards and now their programs are
>>>clearly better relative to the past.
>>>
>>>Junior5 is clearly better than Junior4.6 and the next version of Junior is going
>>>to be clearly better than Junior5
>>>
>>>The same is for Hiarcs7.32 relative to Hiarcs6.
>>>
>>>Uri
>>
>>
>>but the improvements are definitely _driven_ by hardware advances. Go run
>>the latest hiarcs on your old 386 against Genius 2 and see what happens...
>
>Yes you are right, since Hiarcs 7.32 could not run on a 386.:) But I understand
>your point.
Why do you think Hiarcs could not run on a 386???
Is there a reason I'm not aware of (I recognize I don't have Hiarcs)?
If the reason is "Windows 95 can't run on a 386", this is not true. I have
Win95b (OSR2, FAT32) installed on a 386SX-20MHz notebook (5Mb RAM, 230Mb HD) and
it runs fine (well... as fine as Windows can run, but this is another problem).
The OS is exactly the same as the one I'm running on my developpement computer
(I have definitely thrown away Win98 a few days ago - what a shit). Just that I
had to copy the WIN95 directory from the install CD to a ZIP disk to be able to
install it on the notebook...
Christophe
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