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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
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Reply-To: drc@claris.com (Dennis Cohen)
Organization: Claris Corporation, Mountain View CA
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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.
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Disclaimer:  Any opinions expressed above are _MINE_!