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From: gors@well.UUCP (Gordon Stewart)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: ES shells
Message-ID: <12851@well.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jul 89 21:14:53 GMT
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Reply-To: gors@well.UUCP (Gordon Stewart)
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In article <15762@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> andy@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU 

	>> (Andrew Purshottam) writes:
	>>>The $300 price is curious, I have seen adds for clips from
	>>>Austin Code works asking $30, and I have been told that
	>>>federally funded research projects (like my prof's) can
	>>>get it for free?! What gives? 
	>>>
	>>>Andy

I gather that the difference is mainly copious printed documentation
and user's guide, when ordered from COSMIC, vs. just source and on-line
docs from Austin Codeworks.  Yes, it's freely available to government
workers, or grantees -- the $350 does include updates, etc. For a
commercial shop (like me :-)), the $350 is worth it for printed docs
and (limited) support.  The $35 for the CLIPS v4.2 from Austin
Codeworks is a good deal, though -- and the ~$65 I paid for the book (at
Cody's in Berkeley) with the executable version was even better!  Now,
I'd like to make a version for Phar Lap's DOS XTENDER to run a true
'386 version under MS-DOS, and a V/386 version -- still climbing the
learning curve on CLIPS itself -- the ports should be a snap.

m sierchio	vox (415) 528-044

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