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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Modula II
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Date: 29 Feb 88 18:55:09 GMT
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In article <802@sdcc8.ucsd.EDU> (John Schultz) writes:
>  Benchmark or M2Amiga?  Check out Amazing Computing, Volume 3, No.
>1.  You'll find Benchmark to be the clear leader, from the 700+
>page manuals, fastest compile and run times, to the only integrated
>environment on the Amiga.
 
I use the Benchmark compiler for my 'structured' code stuff and find it
quite acceptable except ...

>  Distribution problems are over; this compiler is going to take off. Watch.

Did you get it from Leon Frenkel's Avant Garde company or Oxxi ? I got it
from Oxxi and was dismayed at the various messages here from Leon that 
seemed to indicate some sort of proxy fight between him and Oxxi. What
I would like to know is, just who the heck is supporting this product, and
if it is Leon, do the suckers who bought it from Oxxi have to buy it
*again* from him to get support, can we send him our 6 disk originals?
Calling Oxxi gives the traditional, "We are supporting Benchmark Modula II,
and the release manuals should be available any day now." I have been 
steering people clear of this product until there is a definitive answer
to these support questions. Any illumination appreciated.


--Chuck McManis
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These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you.