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From: tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu (Tom Haapanen)
Subject: Re: MultiScope (was: MS has NO free support for new SDK)
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Joel Spolsky <spolsky-joel@cs.yale.edu> writes:
>> I spotted an ad in one of our ad bible magazines about the debugger from
>> Logitech (of all people) that said it ran under PM, Windows etc. 

> You are referring to the Multiscope Debugger for Windows. The ads
> appeared in June, I called them and they said that MAYBE in the fall
> they would have this program ready. As far as I am concerned this is
> vaporware, it pisses me off no end when people advertise programs they
> haven't written yet.

We have MultiScope for OS/2 PM.  It also pisses me off to no end when a
debugger is so unstable that it crashes regularly when you're trying to
find out why wour program is crashing.  

I'm not impressed by MultiScope, and I wouldn't recommend it to anybody.
It looks snazzy, but it's flaky (under PM), doesn't exist (under Windows)
and I have had many poor experiences with Logitech's Modula-2 support and
development.

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