Re: computer-go: Is the Go Modem Protocol used in actual tournaments ?

[David Fotland <fotland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There is no right or wrong operating system.  Some are better at one thing, 
and some are
better at another.  If you intend to sell your program, there is not really 
any choice other than
Windows.  I suppose I could imagine someone who chose their go programming 
operating system because
it was easy to set up ethernet connections, but it seems a little odd :)

I don't think I said that setting up an ethernet conenection is 
difficult.  Just that installing cards is more
difficult than connecting an RS-232 cable :)  I didn't expect anyone to 
find that statement at all
controversial.  Maybe I should have explicitly said that I was talking 
about Windows boxes, rather
than Sun workstations, but I thought the context was obvious.

At 10:24 AM 1/8/2001 +0000, you wrote:

> > kinds of connections many times, and rs-232 is much easier :)  Have you 
> ever
> > set up an ethernet network for machines that didn't have built-in cards?
>
> I can't help the comment that your world-view (that setting up an
> ethernet network is difficult) shows that you have been using the wrong
> operating system for too long :)
>
> But then so have most go programmers, I suppose..
>
> Christian
David Fotland