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Subject: Re: If hiarcs can port to mac os then why can't others??

Author: ERIQ

Date: 06:02:39 01/07/05

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On January 07, 2005 at 08:52:05, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On January 07, 2005 at 01:42:15, ERIQ wrote:
>
>>I think some programmers are just getting lazy.
>
>For engine you need a 1000+ copies sold a year to make a living.
>
>Selling engine without GUI is not realistic i learned the hard way. People only
>get mad then. I can assure you that.
>
>However if someone is prepared to pay me 125 copies of diep, i can deliver a
>single diep binary for each platform: g4 and g5 and os/x (xboard/winboard
>compatible) and the person in question then can try to sell that as much as he
>wants to for the mac and can keep all the profit he makes (it is impossible to
>check sales anyway). In fact diep will be one of the few working parallel at the
>g5. OS/x might have not such best multithreading support (no kernel threads),
>though i didn't check it out 100%. Yet DIEP is multiprocessor so no problems at
>the dual G5 there.
>
>The G5 processor is relative slow for integer software in general, but for DIEP
>it's a fine processor.
>
>Vincent

Do you really believe that someone would buy you product at that sum of money
over hiarcs 9.6 (mac),for less than $50 bucks. I understand that you need money
but please be realistic.



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