Hi Paul, you wrote: >I agree hole heartedly Elan. In the back of my mind I am seeing "Turbo >Pascal". I don't know if you where around when it was popular, but I was in >college at the time. I was an Assembler programmer when it came out. Played around with version 1.0, liked it, but preferred Assembler at the time. >It was owned by every geek on campus. When every >other language was selling for ridiculas prices with all manner of bizzar >run time fees, you could get "Turbo Pascal" for practiclly nothing and there >was no run time fee involved. That little company eventually became Borland >Computers. No, it became Borland International and has since been renamed to Inprise. A few years ago I spent two years as a consultant programming in Delphi, their follow-up product. > >At the sametime I'm thinking of BEOS. They have a beautiful product but >their pricing is keeping the OS out of the hands of the people that could >make it a player. I may be wrong but I don't think BEOS will ever be a >contender simply because the owner is so intent in making money from day >one. Actually, if I recall correctly, their pricing is relatively low. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I recall having received an email from them, when their Intel version began shipping. The price I believe I saw then was about $40 - $60. Have they raised their prices since? > >Just my humble thoughts on the issue. > >Paul > >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: [REBOL] DONT MAKE IT COMMERCIAL!!!! Re:(5) >>Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 21:24:51 -0800 > >Snippet... >> >> >>Currently, if the guys at REBOL Tech can afford to, they should not let >>pricing get in the way of having everyone, who does anything on the >>Internet get REBOL and use it. >> >>Elan >> > >______________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > >
