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From: ler@pnet02.cts.com (Larry Rosenman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Manx 3.6 & SDB
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Date: Sun, 29-Nov-87 14:31:11 EST
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baer@percival.UUCP (Ken Baer) writes:
>In article <1554@cup.portal.com> Lawrence_E_Rosenman@cup.portal.com writes:
>>I just got off the phone with MANX Software systems, inquiring on the status
>>of Aztec C Release 3.6 with the Source Level Debugger (SDB)
>>Apparently, they talked with the developer today (11/23/87) and he stated
>>that it would be another 3-4 WEEKS (Meaning Christmas or so) till it
>>will be ready.
>>I think that this STINKS.  These people should be Flamed, and flamed heavily
>>for ADVERTISING, and making face to face claims, and then slipping
>>them a MONTH or more.
>
>Your're missing an important fact, Amiga World published the Manx advertisment
>a full month before they were supposed to.  Also consider that magazine ads
>have to be submitted a couple of months before they get published (usually),
>they probably expected the product to be ready by then.  I am actually 
>suprised it's going to be ready this soon.  At SIGGRAPH this last summer, I
>overheard Leo Schwab ask Jim Goodnow how the Source Level Debugger was coming
>along.  He replied, "It's coming along."  I too, am sorry the product got 
>delayed, I sent my order in last week.  But I don't think it's worth switching
>compilers over.  The same thing could as easily happen with Lattice.  And
>finally, please don't flame the programmer who's writing the thing, let him
>work on it instead of reading flames.  As anxious as I am to get SDB, I'd
>rather have a late program that works than a rushed program that is a close
>personal friend of the Guru.  
>
>
>-- 
>	-Ken Baer.  					 
>   //   Amiga: This is Life in the Fast Lane!
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>"The Few, The Proud, The Criminally Insane - Oberlin Computer Science" - me.

You miss MY point:
    I saw Jim Goodnow II at AmiExpo in New York, and HE said (Face to Face)
that it would be ready at the end of November.  I realize schedules slip, but 
DON'T make claims when you can't back them up.

For Example: 
   I was calling about Manx 3.4b for MONTHS, and was told IT IS NOT READY
but found out that it was sitting on somebodies desk...


   I just don't want to see this get slipped more.

Larry ROsenman

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