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Subject: Re: Question to ED Schroeder: or whoever knows

Author: Michel Langeveld

Date: 10:54:23 01/23/00

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On January 23, 2000 at 12:47:03, Ed Schröder wrote:

>>Posted by John Warfield on January 23, 2000 at 11:30:43:
>>
>>Exactly how does the auto-player affect rebel's playing strength? Does it make
>>rebel search slower? effect hash tables? I am having a problem understanding
>>exactly how the auto-player would affect playing strength. Thanks
>
>John,
>
>Have a look at:
>
>http://www.rebel.nl/ubb/Forum1/HTML/000045.html
>
>http://www.rebel.nl/ubb/Forum1/HTML/000052.html
>
>and shiver. It's unlikely there is a bug in Rebel. More likely the DOS auto232
>driver (1993/1994) is out-dated due to newer PC's but I can't proof that. All
>in all I think that most of the time auto232 does a good job but the exceptions
>are certainly there.
>
>Ed

Maybe a silly questions. But why not implement the DOS-driver bugfree in your
own program? So you communicate directly on the lowest level to the PC. (read
program with I/O ports). At least your program is bug-free then.....

It's a shame your wonderful program is not in various ELO-lists because only
this!!

Michel Langeveld



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