Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!fluke!mce From: mce@tc.fluke.COM (Brian McElhinney) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: TML Pascal II (Really: MPW Upgrade Cost) Message-ID: <6245@fluke.COM> Date: 7 Dec 88 17:44:02 GMT References: <1857@ndsuvax.UUCP> <32737@bbn.COM> <10245@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU> <1867@ndsuvax.UUCP> <1234@orion.cf.uci.edu> <21723@apple.Apple.COM> Sender: news@tc.fluke.COM Organization: SRS Recursive Software, Castrovalva, WA Lines: 14 In article <21723@apple.Apple.COM> shebanow@Apple.COM (Andrew Shebanow) writes: >Secondly, we have to price MPW higher than most other development systems, >because we want to encourage 3rd parties to write these types of programs. >Even if Apple could sell MPW for $150, we would be hurting companies that we >want to help. I can't resist: is that why the linker is so &%#@* slow?!? MPW might almost be useful if the linker were thrown out and rewritten. Any chance of that happening? Brian McElhinney mce@tc.fluke.com