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Article #6152Looking for gnu chess *executables*
From: Ajay Shah
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 1990 12:18
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 1990 12:18
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I picked up the tarfile from prep.ai.mit.edu and couldn't get it
to compile. So does someone have a full system "ready to go" for
the Sparcstation 1 running XWindows.
More generally, I think the philosophy of the FSF is most
commendable, but the difficulties involved in getting a given
package to run on a given machine are pretty formidable,
especially to the non-hacker. It probably makes a lot more sense
to have a ftp-site where executables are stored for each machine
supported, and "setup" information like directories etc. is taken
from environmental variables. Face it: 99% of the machines in
the world come from five vendors. Support the Sparcstation, the
DEC MIPS box, the NeXT and the IBM R/6000 and you've got a huge
fraction of the workstations out there. So the sheer number of
executables which need to maintained need not be too large.
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Ajay Shah, (213)747-9991, ajayshah@usc.edu
The more things change, the more they stay insane.
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