[info-mcl] Can we get some price quotes?

[Ron Garret]

Since there seems to be a lot of interest in providing financial  
support for MCL development it seems to me that the next step is to  
get some estimates on how much it will cost to get various things  
done.  Can we get some price quotes from the people who actually know  
how to do these things?  (Gary, Gail, Andrew, I'm looking at you :-)   
Specifically:

1.  How much would it cost to get regular MCL running on an Intel Mac  
if runtime efficiency is not a concern?  I'm thinking here in terms  
of some quick-and-dirty hack that will get the current system working  
under Rosetta even if the resulting system is horribly slow.  (And  
just how horribly slow would it be?)

2.  How much would it cost to develop an Intel-32 compiler for MCL if  
runtime efficiency is not a concern?

2a.  Same as above, but if runtime efficiency is a concern?

3.  Now that Fred is going to be open-source, how much would it cost  
to port it to OpenMCL+Cocoa?  How about the inspector?

4.  And while we're at it, how much would it cost to reproduce the  
MCL Quicktime API on top of OpenMCL+Cocoa?

Feel free to respond privately if you don't want the world to see the  
numbers.

rg