Author: Thom Perry
Date: 06:27:47 11/23/99
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On November 23, 1999 at 08:23:39, Francesco Di Tolla wrote: >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 Strange, but my reply got posted to the wrong message. Someone asked why don't you just create two separate partitions, and my message was supposed to be attached to that one explaining that there is more to it than creating separate partitions for different operating systems. Somehow, that message appears to be missing now.
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