Author: Frank Quisinsky
Date: 07:52:21 02/05/00
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On February 05, 2000 at 03:41:54, Dann Corbit wrote: >On February 05, 2000 at 03:27:24, Jeff Anderson wrote: >[snip] >>>>But the straightforward answer to your question is: >>>>"I had nothing to do with the program except a simple 1/2 hour port job." >> >>Woops, I must have made a mistake in the last post. I was going to ask if this >>weakens the engine somehow, when you convert it from a Linux program to a >>Windows program. >Sometimes it may weaken it, sometimes it may strengthen it. It the actual case, >Amy is a multi-threaded program. I only did the port for a single CPU. So for >a multiple CPU machine, the Linux version will knock the PC version silly. On >the other hand, the MS VC++ compiler does a very good job and it will probably >be a tiny bit stronger than a single CPU version of Amy for Linux. > >>Also, is doing what you have done legal? >Yes. The program is GPL. In fact, he mentioned to one of the guys on the >Winboard forum that he wanted someone to do the port. It is not a problem ! The programmer Thorsten Greiner wrote me yesterday (eMail: 17:00 german time) In german: Vielleicht findet sich ja jemand, der eine Windows Version macht. Der Code selber sollte relativ portabel sein. Nur - ich hab kein Windows ... Thanks Dann for your work ! I think it is a fantastic program ! Regards Frank
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