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From: philip@Kermit.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: $$$ & THINK Pascal 3.0
Message-ID: <1990Mar24.013614.19232@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 24 Mar 90 01:36:14 GMT
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In article <90082.141345DN5@psuvm.psu.edu>, DN5@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
> In article <50.260A1150@imagery.FIDONET.ORG>,
> Jim.Spencer@p5.f22.n282.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Jim Spencer) says:
> >
> > >I called
> > >last week to upgrade MPW to 3.0 whatever and the said there is
> > >no upgrade path from 2.0.2 you have to buy the whole thing again!
> >
> >You really want to scream: there was an upgrade path (albeit a very
> >expensive one) but it ran out in February!!  Isn't APDA wonderful!
> 
> What???!!!  I hadn't heard that there was a deadline on this?  I have
> been a VERY loyal MPW user since 2.0.2, even convincing my workplace
> that MPW was the developement system of choice.  This, even in the
> face of APDA trouble and MacApp incompatabilities (not to mention
> the trouble with SADE).
> 
> While we do have MPW 3.0 at work, I still have 2.0.2 at home.  I
> was going to be upgrading next month when I'll get a contract
> which would require MPW 3.0.  Now I don't know what I'll do...
> 
Buy TML Pascal? Has anyone out there used it lately? Is it any good? It
includes MPW for a fraction of Apple's price.

Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu