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From: jdh@bsu-cs.UUCP (John Hiday)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Question about Manx C updates
Message-ID: <1030@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 21-Aug-87 20:09:50 EDT
Article-I.D.: bsu-cs.1030
Posted: Fri Aug 21 20:09:50 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 23-Aug-87 10:25:52 EDT
References: <8708191652.AA06573@THYME.LCS.MIT.EDU> <2195@xanth.UUCP>
Reply-To: jdh@bsu-cs.UUCP (John Hiday)
Organization: Ball State University UCS, Muncie, IN
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In article <2195@xanth.UUCP> kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
>In article <8708191652.AA06573@THYME.LCS.MIT.EDU> atheybey@ptt.lcs.mit.edu
>writes:
>>
>> [Question about difference between $50 and free Manx 3.20 -> 3.4 update]
>>
>>[... This] seems to imply that I will just be getting a fixed 3.2
>>compiler, rather than 3.4.
>
>Back in 1981 I worked for a company that let itself be sucked into the
>trap of maintaining multiple parallel versions of the same software.
> [Remainder deleted...]

Huh?  3.20 and 3.4 are not parallel versions as far as I know.

The deal is: Send in $0.00 and you get the 3.4 release of the package you
have.  Send in $50.00 and you get the afforementioned 3.4 release PLUS
several utilities like make, grep, diff, Z (vi clone), etc.

In 3.20 the developer package did not include these utilities, but in 3.4
it does, thus if you are an original 3.20 owner you have not yet paid
for them.

I have the developer package and went through this upgrade myself several
months ago (though I didn't have to send in blank floppies like the
original poster suggested).
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