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Subject: Re: A Question for Robert Hyatt

Author: Eugene Nalimov

Date: 12:42:16 09/12/99

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On September 12, 1999 at 11:22:23, Keith Kitson wrote:

>Sounds to me like  a compromise may be to test each program on a large selection
>of hardware to get a mean result across all platforms.
>
>Surely the most marketable product should run on the most platforms?  This may
>not necessarily be the strongest though, for obvious reasons.

Unfortunately, the most marketable product must run on exactly one platform -
32-bit Windows. And any reasonable manufacturer will put resources that are
necessary for porting into improving the program for dominatnt platform.

Eugene



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