Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 08:20:52 11/01/99
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On November 01, 1999 at 10:17:21, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On October 31, 1999 at 16:05:34, Fernando Villegas wrote: > >>On October 30, 1999 at 09:44:39, Robert Pawlak wrote: >> >>>I've put an article up on my web page. There is some interesting info for users, >>>potential users, and developers. > >Hello Robert, > >You forgot to mention in your article >that DIEP is available for linux-native. it's just a >textmode xboard engine, but also works great from console. >prize $60 US, or 119 dutch guilders, so it's not freeware >and i have currently only sold 1 version (first version i sold >i sold for half price) for native linux... ...so saying commercial >programs are in big demand under linux is a kind of big word. > >I have totally gotten like 20 emails asking for a linux version of >DIEP all those years. Compare that to a few thousand emails short >after every world championship for the newest version of DIEP (diep used >to be shareware first few years and for all those cdroms sold i don't >get a penny). > >I send now and then an update for linux to 2 testers and 1 user. >currently improving the parallellism of DIEP. > > >DIEP-linux is 4 processors capable (more on demand), though you need at least >kernel 2.2.x for it to run with some decent hashtables. That won't >be a problem though. this kernel (2.2.10 for example in redhat) is most >distributed now. > >A 2 processor version of DIEP under linux is playing at fics (diepblue) >or icc (Secret), so you can first try how it plays if that's a main concern. >Operated by Zeke Smigel. > >It's running the same version i used for playing the dutch open championship. >DIEP also ran under linux there on Bob's Quad Xeon from Birmingham Alabama. > >DIEP is also running on GICS at a K6-300 at DiepChess(C), operated by >Ralph Hellmig. > >The linux executable is around 8% slower than the windows executable, >which is caused by the fact that microsoft visual c++ compiler generates >faster code than the GCC 2.96 compiler. > >Linux doesn't support more than 32 mb shared anonymous memory, which i consider >a big problem for linux, but i hacked >around that in DIEP, therefore diep DOES support up to a few gigabytes >hashtable (2 currently, plan to expand that). > >Greetings, >Vincent > >>> >>>http://members.aol.com/rjpawlak/ch_widow.html >>> >>>Enjoy! >> Vincent: Talking of customers, I am not a glamourous and innovative Linux one, but surely I am one of the most patient ever existed. I still wait from you the final version you promised to me more than 4 years ago, when I bought from you a flawed, crippled Diep for Dos. In answer to my request that I courteosuly do only once or twice a year, you only send to me long emails full of explanations and new schedules. According to my astral chart I am very patient and even not very assertive of my interests, so this issue has been almost a confirmation of the scientific power of astrology. I want real answer in the form of disquetes with that last Diep version, Vincent, or juts tell me once and for all that I need to pay again 50 bucks to get it. The patient and almost stupid Fernando customer. fernando >>Thanks >>Fernando
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