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From: ech@pegasus.ATT.COM (Edward C Horvath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: APDA on a disk
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Date: 23 May 89 20:53:24 GMT
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In article <7370@hoptoad.uucp> tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney) writes:
>(5) No third party developer has a product similar to MPW (as long as
>we exclude the compilers from "MPW proper"), so you aren't stepping on
>anyone's toes.

In article <1881@husc6.harvard.edu> siegel@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel):
> 	Incorrect. Have you forgotten the Aztec C product from Manx?
> It's a command-line interface, with tool and editor support. Very much
> like MPW, but not as slick. (Commando's pretty nifty stuff!)

I don't speak for Manx, but the Aztec C Shell was developed at least
two years before the MPW Shell; we modified the tools in the Aztec package
to run under MPW precisely so we could leverage off Apple's (considerable)
effort.  Manx continues to ship the Aztec shell with the package for those
who don't want to spend the extra hundreds for the MPW shell.

But I frankly doubt that anyone -- including Jim Goodnow, who wrote the
shell initially -- would weep many tears if they didn't have to maintain
it any longer.  Of course, it's still faster than the MPW shell, but I traded
that for the convenience a long time ago.

=Ned Horvath=

Disclaimer: I don't work for Manx.  I was responsible for the MPW port.