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Subject: Re: Mystic PASCAL
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Date: Wed, 4-Feb-87 20:18:28 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb  4 20:18:28 1987
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> Has anyone heard of "Mystic Pascal"?
> 	This is a $16 MS DOS Pascal compiler from:
> 	Mystic Canyon Software
> 
> It sounds too good to be true.
> 
> Ken A. Glidden, {harvard | ll-xn | mirror | axiom}!adelie!morgoth!glidden

"Mystic Pascal" is a product of J.R. Tyson, who created "JRT Pascal"
for the CP/M world.  The company went bankrupt amid a flurry of lawsuits
and postal fraud investigations.  JRT had apparently advertised the
program as complete and available, and taken money for copies of same,
BEFORE ANY SUCH PROGRAM EXISTED.

"JRT Pascal" is the classic example of "vaporware".  It is VERY UNLIKELY
that "Mystic Pascal" is as good as it sounds.
-- 
{hplabs,amdahl,3comvax}!bnrmtv!perkins        --Henry Perkins

It is better never to have been born.  But who among us has such luck?
One in a million, perhaps.