Ah, I see. Seemed like quite the coincidence. Did we discuss it in the programming forum here at some point, or did you run into the story somewhere else?
And yes, I did work with two other guys, one from Carnegie Melon and I think the other was at USC. They provided the C neural network code that ran the "expert" level computer player.
It was about the time when you started a thread about a Journal (which you use to be an official author/editor for, or something like that), which was closing down.
That inspired me to look it up on the internet, and read a number of the articles. This led me to the MVP Backgammon, which rang a big bell with me, as I remembered it well. (EDIT: My guess would be that I searched on your full name, as part of my journal readings, hence probably saw MVP Backgammon mentioned).
I then searched for articles/posts etc about it, and saw your explanations, explaining about how it really DID NOT cheat.
I was amazed, that a game I use to play from time to time (MVP Backgammon), and knew a number of others, who use to play it, a lot. Was a regular poster on these forums.
Sorry if I confused you. But I saw it as a good opportunity to bring it up (MVP Backgammon). As it seemed like a good example of peoples miss-understandings, in real life. (two birds with one stone).
I use to really like Borland C++ Builder in its day. It was a very rapid and easy to use tool. Just a pity that it had so many bugs (in later versions), and that when the company got taken over (a number of times). They have ended up making something apparently wildly over priced (if any hobbyists want to buy it), and limited (as it is NOT much of an improvement (for non-business use) and does NOT support Linux).
tl;dr
For about $199, you could buy pretty much, the FULL version, and sell software made with it, freely. Nowadays, it is more like thousands of dollars (including the semi-mandatory regular version updates), and may involve licences which limit sales to under $1000, if you go for the current, low cost version (Approx $199), but it is RATHER cut down, and there are many free (open sourced) tools, which may be better to use. E.g. Lazarus (Delphi equivalent, approximately), (Free Pascal language with similar Delphi RAD application Gui features).
GCC is arguably a much better C/C++ compiler, and is free.