Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!bu.edu!orc!inews!iwarp.intel.com!csun!Twg-S5!bcphyagi From: bcphyagi@Twg-S5.uucp (Stephen Walton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: MANX 5.0d update, How much $$$?? Message-ID: <1990Oct11.174014.17034@csun.edu> Date: 11 Oct 90 17:40:14 GMT References: <8457@milton.u.washington.edu> <66@screamer.csee.usf.edu> <8587@milton.u.washington.edu> Sender: news@csun.edu (News Administrator) Distribution: comp Organization: csun Lines: 34 In article mwm@raven.pa.dec.com (Mike (My Watch Has Windows) Meyer) writes: >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. True enough. >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. The 5.0d upgrade, except for the CBM 2.0 includes, is also free for the downloading from both BIX and the Aztec BBS. Aztec can't post the 2.0 includes, hence the disk-based upgrade option. It should also be pointed out that the 5.0b and 5.0d upgrades were a complete set of new executables-no patches to apply. >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, I'm not sure what "2.0 support" means in terms of a compiler. 5.0d has the 2.0 includes and pragmas. No workbench compilation from Manx yet. ARexx support for an integrated environment was part of the 3.6->5.0 upgrade; I have a little macro package which uses TxEd+ for this. Summary: If you currently have either Lattice or Manx, there is no overriding reason to switch to the other compiler. If you have none yet, there is no reason on the basis of customer support or upgrade availability to prefer one to the other, either. IM not-so-HO of course. -- Stephen R. Walton, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Cal State Northridge I am srw@csun.edu no matter WHAT the stupid From: line says!