Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!bacchus.pa.dec.com!granite.pa.dec.com!mwm From: mwm@raven.pa.dec.com (Mike (My Watch Has Windows) Meyer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: MANX 5.0d update, How much $$$?? Message-ID: Date: 4 Oct 90 18:37:54 GMT References: <8457@milton.u.washington.edu> <66@screamer.csee.usf.edu> <8587@milton.u.washington.edu> Sender: news@wrl.dec.com (News) Distribution: comp Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica Lines: 32 In-Reply-To: dlarson@blake.u.washington.edu's message of 4 Oct 90 16:44:44 GMT In article <8587@milton.u.washington.edu> dlarson@blake.u.washington.edu (Dale Larson) writes: Sorry, I apparently have both prices wrong. For lattice I was going by memory of several earlier postings from lattice users complaing that the upgrade wasn't free. For Manx, they will apparently give you 5.0d1 for $10 rather than $15 total if you already have 5.0b or c. Again, my appologies for this erroneous information. It's worse than you think - the 5.0d upgrade is primarily a "bug fix" upgrade. In Lattice terms, this would be from 5.0x to 5.02 or 5.04. Those were distributed free to registered Lattice owners (I got mine, anyway). Interim bug fix releases (5.01, 5.03 & 5.05) were available at the same price if you called and asked for them, or you could download them from the Lattice BBS. 5.10 is a major upgrade, including 2.0 support, the ability to compile from the workbench, the beginnings of an integrated (via ARexx) environment, as well as the usual minor improvements one takes for granted. Lattice wanted $40 to upgrade from any previous version of 5.0x. The reason people complained is because they were getting charged for it at all, when they were used to getting or expected free upgrades. They probably would have complained (only not quite as loudly) if the charge had been the $10 that Manx is charging. That this was the first release after compiler support moved from Lattice to SAS just added to the confusion.