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From: mce@tc.fluke.COM (Brian McElhinney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: TML Pascal II (Really: MPW Upgrade Cost)
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Date: 7 Dec 88 17:44:02 GMT
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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