Date: Mon, 12 Dec 94 09:23:15 CST
From: leroy AT norland DOT com (Todd LeRoy)
To: djgpp AT norland DOT com
Subject: Re: Platform Independant GUIs

> From uunet!enel.ucalgary.ca!shoham Sat Dec 10 03:11:04 1994
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> From: uunet!enel.ucalgary.ca!shoham (Idan Shoham)
> Subject: Re: Platform Independant GUIs
> To: uunet!norland.com!leroy (Todd LeRoy)
> Date: Fri, 9 Dec 1994 22:22:19 -0700 (MST)
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> Todd,
> 
> I've looked at XVT, but don't believe it can be ported to GCC (Don't think
> they'll give out source code).
> 
> It looks alright, but the demo from XVT is less than impressive, while the
> DOS port of the stuff comes with a very flashy demo, but a ridiculous
> price tag (they quoted me $10k-$15k!!!!!).
> 
> Have you had a look at Zinc?  Does it look better / cheaper?  I've been
> thinking of calling them for demo disks / info / etc.
> 
> -- Idan
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> shoham AT enel DOT ucalgary DOT ca
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> 
Zinc is "significantly" lower cost.  You can the the complete DOS app kit
for a single developer for $800.  This includes ALL source code.  I haven't
licensed the kit yet, but probably will soon.  Also, it appears that Zinc
is just about the only player out there who has Unicode support available
TODAY.   Other people are saying "real soon now", but they've been saying
that about Windows 95 too (or is it Windows 96 yet...).

Todd LeRoy
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