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From: samlb@well.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Mystic PASCAL
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Date: Mon, 9-Feb-87 12:01:48 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb  9 12:01:48 1987
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Reply-To: samlb@well.UUCP (Samuel B. Bassett)
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	JRT Pascal was _not_ a scam -- I got copies of both Version 1 and
Version 3.  Whatever its other defects, JRT Pascal actually existed, and
was being shipped.  (I even have a copy of JRT Modula-2).

	Jim Tyson's problem was not vaporware, it was inadequate business
planning -- he did not succeed in raising enough captial through sales or
financing to cope with the thundering tide of orders he received, and had
to give up.

	The man is a technical genius -- I've met him -- but painfully shy,
and not a businessman.  A lot of other people in the early micro market fell
into the same category, but not all of them did as much work as Jim did to
try to fulfill their promises.

	I have not tried Mystic Pascal (UCSD & Turbo are enough for me to cope
with), so I can't say anything about them, other than to wish J.R.T. well . . .

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