Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!claris!drc From: drc@claris.com (Dennis Cohen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: TML Pascal II Message-ID: <7176@claris.com> Date: 30 Nov 88 17:06:46 GMT References: <1857@ndsuvax.UUCP> Reply-To: drc@claris.com (Dennis Cohen) Organization: Claris Corporation, Mountain View CA Lines: 17 First of all, APDA doesn't set the pricing on MPW, Apple does. The only thing missing from the TML II MPW package is "the assembler stuff". All of the other tools are there. Apple licenses this MPW configuration to third party language developers for an annual fee to ship with their product(s). The fee is not prohibitive and the major portion of the costs involve disk duplication and the printing/production of the manuals. If you are to purchase the TML II package (about $90 from MacConnection) and the $100 assembler package from APDA, you will have the complete MPW release with a Pascal compiler for LESS money than Apple has APDA charging for just the basic MPW/Assembler package. Talk to Apple about why they set the prices the way they do, I'm not going to make any guesses along that line. Dennis Cohen Claris Corp. ------------ Disclaimer: Any opinions expressed above are _MINE_!