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Subject: Oops - at a minimum price of $1000, I'd call it useless.

Author: Chuck

Date: 19:55:43 03/13/01

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After posting this msg, I searched mysimon.com to get an idea of the price Kylix
would run. I figured $200-300 for a version with JDBC support, etc. Well, the
lowest I saw was $1000, which puts it in the "forget it" category.

Chuck

On March 13, 2001 at 22:49:07, Chuck wrote:

>I see Borland has released their new Linux RAD tool, Kylix. Has anyone had a
>chance to get a look at it yet? It appears from the screen print that the
>language is again based on Pascal. I guess it's no surprise that what they may
>have done is a "general port" of Delphi to Linux.
>
>Of course, I know you don't need RAD anything to build a chess engine, but for
>any kind of interface development it's useful.
>
>Any comments on Kylix as a general chess developers tool would be appreciated.
>
>Regards,
>
>Chuck



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