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Subject: Re: Crafty for Psion/Palm ??

Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba

Date: 14:34:39 02/15/00

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On February 15, 2000 at 16:36:56, Christophe Theron wrote:

>On February 15, 2000 at 14:24:56, Tom Kerrigan wrote:
>
>>On February 15, 2000 at 13:44:46, Kim Roper Jensen wrote:
>>
>>>Has anybody tried to compile crafty for the Psion 5/5MX or PalmPilot ??
>>>Just a thougt, because i think there should be some C compilers,
>>> for them( the PDA´s )
>>
>>From what I've heard, Crafty is a prety memory intensive program.
>>
>>It also depends heavily on 64-bit operations.
>>
>>The computers you mention don't have much memory and it takes them forever to do
>>64-bit operations.
>>
>>-Tom
>
>
>Memory shouldn't be a problem. Don't you think 4Mb is enough to store Crafty and
>its data?
>
>However the problem indeed is that the DragonBall EZ

	Talk about name recognition, some of my friends would buy this thing just for
its name, as they are followers of the "Dragon Ball" series by Akira Toriyama. I
wonder if Motorola can get in troubles for using this name.
José.


>(the processor of the Palm,
>68K compatible), has a 16 bits data bus between the processor and the memory.
>This would be a killer for a program like Crafty, handling 64 bits integers.
>
>Crafty is designed for peoples able to afford expensive computers. You need a 64
>bits processor, preferably several 64 bits processors in the same computer.
>
>
>
>    Christophe



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