Author: Francesco Di Tolla
Date: 05:23:39 11/23/99
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On November 23, 1999 at 05:15:50, Thom Perry wrote: >On November 22, 1999 at 23:07:46, Peter Kappler wrote: > >>On November 22, 1999 at 22:48:21, John Wish wrote: >> >>>Do differing operating systems affect the effeciency of chess software? Would >>>Mchess, Rebel, Chessmaster, Shredder, etc, operate any better on linux than on >>>windows? You can compare a program on different operating systems only if you manage to run it on that OS. In general the programs you name are programmed to work under dos/windows and will not work unless you use some specila emulators. >> >>None of those engines run under Linux, unless you want to run a Windows emulator >>like WINE. not only: there is also "dosemu" which is much bettern than wine for dos programs, and the "wmware" software that runs win95 perfectly (while wine fails to run many programs). A program like crafty instead can be cmpiled on both platforms. I think that in general the performance difference should be very small if you have a native program. About emulators the answer is different: they generally do worse, so you wouldn't really like to do it. >That doesn't really solve anything. How will your computer know which is >the primary operating system, which system should it boot up to? ???? >I believe the program he is referring to is called System Commander. It >allows you to install and control up to 150 operating systems on one >computer. [...] The question was not how to boot something but was about efficency of chess programs under different operating systems. regards Franz
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