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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Port I/O
Date: 1996/11/14
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Michael Brenner said

"According to an NT worldwide web site, the Microsoft Developers
Network costs five hundred dollars the first year, and then
five hundred dollars each year thereafter, and it includes
the game developers kit (GDK or G-SDK) for that price. This is far
enough from being <free> that the comments on NT can be considered
fair."

I am not sure what you mean by "far enough from being free", this is
a pretty trivial amount, equivalent to less than one programmer day,
so I cannot see it being a barrier to any serious project.