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From: nopuklic@ndsuvax.UUCP (Blayne Puklich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: TML Pascal II
Message-ID: <1857@ndsuvax.UUCP>
Date: 28 Nov 88 03:34:04 GMT
Organization: North Dakota State University  Fargo, ND
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I don't know if this bothers anyone else, but it seems that for several
months now the people at TML have been advertising their TML Pascal II
compiler as being complete with a full implementation of MPW 2.0.2.
Their advertized list price is $125.  MPW 2.0.2 is available through
APDA for $200.  How do they do this?

I've heard that the MPW shipped with TML Pascal II doesn't include
everything, and I'm curious to find out what's missing.  If not much is,
I'll wonder again how they do it.  (APDA lists the MPW Assembler at $100,
which means that TML is charging $25 for their compiler if the MPW they
ship isn't complete.)

Maybe since MPW 3.0B1 has been made available APDA feels that they can
give away MPW 2.0.2 for little or nothing.  What happens when MPW 3.0
Final hits the market?  Will TML offer an upgrade to 3.0 for one-half
of what the rest of us will have paid?  Or will their upgrade cost as
much as ours?

I guess it just makes me excited that someone can let TML give away
a development package that most of us paid much more for.  I realize
that MPW 2.0.2 is worth nothing when 3.0 Final is released, but still
this bothers me.

Anyone else bothered by this?

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