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Subject: Re: No money in making stronger programs

Author: Georg Langrath

Date: 01:55:29 12/07/00

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Yes you are right. And I think it depends on that strength of for example Par
Excellence is enough for 99.99 % of people. So why bother about making stronger
programs? There is no money in that.

Georg


On December 06, 2000 at 17:39:51, Fernando Villegas wrote:

>I have made a trip along the sites of the main dedicated units manufacturers,
>like Excalibur, Saitek and Novag, and, although all these companies presents
>pretty units, I wonder If only one of all them, from the mere toys to expensive
>units for "experts",  has a really new engine. I have the feeling that many of
>those NEW brand pieces of plastic simulating wood are enclosing very old
>programs, some of them of 90's vintage and even, I suspect, 80's vintage, like
>the Phantom unit by Excalibur that I believe it is the old Fidelity computer of
>1985 with the Par Excellence program -or a version of it- by the Spracklen.
>Someone with info about this?
>Fernando



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