Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 09:31:40 12/27/99
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On December 26, 1999 at 08:25:00, Ken Plesset wrote: >I had problems with Fritx 5.32 continuously crashing and tried everything I knew >of for 6 monthw. The chess base help line could not help me. Finally I got a >Microsoft Prefessional repairman to look at the computer. Eventually we swapped >out my AMD K6 microprocesser and replaced it with the same speed Pentium. After >that the program worked perfectly. AMD K6 is not exactly equivalent to the >Pentium. Hope this might help some people who are having problems with Frits. You have to be _very_ careful compiling for the AMD chips. They did _not_ implement the full PII core instruction set, including the conditional move instructions. AMD users complain about crafty all the time, as they compile with my Makefile (which specifies arch=i686 and enables cmov among other things) and then the thing crashes and burns when the CPU faults on those instructions... You have to compile for a 586 architecture (original pentium) or AMD won't work..
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