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

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 06:54:00 01/07/05

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On January 07, 2005 at 09:02:39, ERIQ wrote:

>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.

You're not reading what i wrote.



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