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Subject: Re: Operating systems

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 06:55:43 11/23/99

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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?


I don't see why.  The main thing Linux does better than win98 is process
management.  In linux you can safely use another window to connect to the
chess server and watch your engine play and also chat with other programmers
or whomever.  In windows (NT excluded as it seems to work fine here) you
can easily burn so much CPU time in simple tasks like typing into a console
window that you hurt your program.

I'd suggest NT for windows users, or Linux for those (such as myself) that
prefer unix.



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