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From: chuq@plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: LSC 3.0
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Date: 12 Jun 88 21:39:45 GMT
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>After all the hype, all the waiting, all the promises, the disappointment
>of a $69 upgrade, after all that I won't be able to use it on my Mac Plus
>(without buying memory at today's ridiculous prices).

Repeat the litany after me:

	Give it to me now
	Give it to me free
	Make sure it runs on my PDP-3!

C'mon, folks. You want new toys, you better be willing to meet the
publishers at least half way. Programmers aren't cheap (hmm. maybe they are.
Maybe that's the problem.. Oh, never mind).

Would you people have been any happier with a $25 upgrade to LSC, and the
new source level debugger being a separate product? 

Look at it this way. You're getting a source level debugger for $70. And,
coincidentally, all of the OTHER things that are being shoved into LSC 3.0
at the same time.

As to the extra memory, well, you have to put functionality someplace,
folks. Every time you add features, you need resources to support them. This
stuff isn't magic.

Gimme a break. Every time a publisher does something reasonable, all the
screamers come out because it isn't reasonable enough. You want it free. The
publishers want to be able to pay the rent, eat, and have enough money left
over to build the next release. 

And if they don't get it, there is no next release. 

If you don't like what they're doing with LSC 3.0, don't buy it. That's
always your option, you know.


Chuq Von Rospach			chuq@sun.COM		Delphi: CHUQ

	Robert A. Heinlein: 1907-1988. He will never truly die as long as we
                           read his words and speak his name. Rest in Peace.