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Subject: Re: No money in making stronger programs

Author: stuart taylor

Date: 18:24:11 12/07/00

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On December 07, 2000 at 04:55:29, Georg Langrath wrote:

>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

Oh stop this please! What is the main purpose in all this forum, if not about
the strength of programs?
S.Taylor



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