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- From: plav@cup.portal.com (Rick M Plavnicky)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Upgrade MANX C for ADOS 3.0 stuff? How?
- Message-ID: <73052@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 18:36:47 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- Distribution: world
- References: <1993Jan04.223531.6723@microsoft.com>
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- iank@microsoft.com (Ian Kennedy) writes:
-
- >I tried calling their BBS, but the area code changed. So I called
- >the number with the new area code and it had been disconnected.
- >
- >So, what is the number for the MANX BBS (are they still around?)?
-
- Manx's tech support and BBS numbers have changed. The new numbers
- are:
-
- tech support - +1 908 780 5005
- BBS - +1 908 780 6363
-
- BBS access is still 2400 bps max, but they claim to be thinking about
- getting a faster modem.
-
- I recently caught up on the message traffic there (about 3.5 months
- worth) and frankly, I was disappointed. Lots of Manx bashing (!),
- complaining, and whining, and precious little 'meat'. Responses from
- Manx seem weak and non-committal.
-
- I didn't notice any new and interesting files either. The latest
- product revisions available for downloading seem to be the 5.2b beta
- stuff, but I didn't look really hard. I guess it's been a while since
- Manx has done any Amiga product revisions. :-(
-
- Hope this helps someone, although on re-reading it sure looks like I'm
- painting a picture of doom and gloom. I've used Manx products for
- years; give me my command line driven compiler/assembler/linker, make,
- a halfway decent emacs, and standalone revision control tools over
- that GUI stuff any day. (Perhaps one day I'll change my mind.
- Everyone seems to consider Borland's Integrated Development
- Environment (on Intel-based boxes) to be an excellent GUI development
- environment, but I find it quite confining.) It'll kinda bum me out to
- end up switching to SAS for current support, and having to a) learn a
- new way of doing things, and b) figure out how to get all the GUI
- stuff out of the way without losing too much functionality.
-
- Of course, ummm, those are my personal problems, right? :-)
-
- Aside to Doug Walker: How long will the Manx-->SAS upgrade deal you
- recently mentioned last? Another week or two? Indefinitely?
- Somewhere in between?
-
-
- /* Rick Plavnicky plav@cup.portal.com */
-