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Subject: Re: No vote

Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba

Date: 07:59:51 09/21/98

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On September 21, 1998 at 10:49:56, William Dozier wrote:

>Good/Day to all: I do not vote because the ccc do not reflect the views of the
>Mac/ or its O/S. And i have not see that most of you dont take the time to find
>out about the Mac O/S And its platform for playing chess is second to none./But
>no one is concern about writing a decent program for the Mac/ Im directing
>talking to you guys that have so much time for all the other programs, because
>it is easier for you to do. So most of you cannot handel writing a program for
>the Mac because its to hard for you to do. Please dont get bent out of shape,but
>that the way i see it.
>
>                           Respectfully/William

	You are right. The fact is that most engines currently available are for PC's.
I think this is due to the fact that PC's outnumber other computers (I recently
realized this), and commercial programmers write programs for the platform that
will increase their earnings.
	For my part, I am writing an engine for the platform that is available to me.
Most programers would do the same, and as PC's running under windows is the most
widespread platform, chess engines for PC's running under windows are the most
common.



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