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From: jas@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU (Jeffrey A. Sullivan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: LSC  >> 3.0 <<
Message-ID: <1118@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU>
Date: 10 Apr 88 18:10:28 GMT
References: <128@dogie.edu>
Organization: Decision Systems Lab., Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA.
Lines: 40
Keywords: debugger
Summary: That ad's been out for 2 months or so.

In article <128@dogie.edu>, terranova@vms3.macc.wisc.edu (Macc) writes:
> 
> Greetings,
>    Has anyone else noticed the advertisement for LSC 3.0 (yes, 3.0)?
> Pick up your latest copy of MacTutor and just turn it over to the
> back cover.  Check out the box in the lower left corner.  In bold
> print even (if I remember correctly - I don't have it in front of me).
> There is a small mention of a symbollic debugger.  Has anyone else
> seen this?  Is it here finally?  Was I dreaming ( |-) ? Has anyone
> had a chance to use it yet?
Yes, you saw right, but that ad's been out for 2-3 months, so it doesn't
mean didly-squat.  I bought LSC about a month ago figuring "How long
could it be?   Well, I've heard less about it in recent weeks than
right when I bought it.  Then, on the net there was a bit of a furor
over Think's upgrade policy (free 3.0 to people who bought LSC after
some time in February).  That's why I bought it instead of waiting for
3.0, but Jeez, how long must we wait, Oh Think?

I also hope that the upgrade includes a new set of docs.  I got the
2.11 docs with a bunch of papers stapled together for the 2.13 upgrade
stuffed in.  If I need to look for something, I've got to flip thru
the manual, then shuffle through the pages to find if the manual is
overridden.  If I get another sheaf of papers, I'll scream.  Kind of
like looking through IM 1, 4, and 5 to find the info I need!

Anyway, I hear that Think is on the net, but they are obviously
ignoring these peevish calls of "When?"  Perhaps they are very far
from releasing LSC 3.0, and just announced it to boost sales.  This
doesn't make a lot of sense, since I don't know of any competitors
that just released a new version that they'd be trying to steal the
thunder from, but ya never know.

A symbolic debugger would be nice for me, since I own a Mac II, and
the MacsBug supplied with my LSC inly causes my II to crash at boot=up
(obviously not the current version), so I am debugger-less.

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Jeffrey Sullivan			  | University of Pittsburgh
jas@cadre.dsl.pittsburgh.edu		  | Intelligent Systems Studies Program
jasper@PittVMS.BITNET, jasst3@cisunx.UUCP | Graduate Student