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- Subject: Re: RiscOSLib for ISO-Pascal
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- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 05:46:45 GMT
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- In article <BxDLw7.DHH@ibmpcug.co.uk> gtoal@ibmpcug.co.uk (Graham Toal) writes:
- >Oh - I should have said this earlier; I only recently discovered that Acorn
- >ad released Edward's excellent Pascal to the world, non-commercially.
- >
- >*FULL MARKS* to acorn for an excellent decision. It really was the
- >right thing to do given that you had good reasons not to market it.
- >
- >I was wondering though - it des *not* seem to have been well publicised.
- >Why don't you arrange with one of the magazines (BAU?) to publish it
- >as a cover disk? That would be a major coup for a magazine and excellent
- >publicity for Acorn.
-
- This is an excellent idea - but it might need to have quite a lot of other
- bits and pieces included for it to be useful to many people (ie, those who
- don't already have Desktop C). It would need to have the FrontEnd module,
- etc, and the linker, to start with, and maybe the 'C' libraries too. Now,
- *that*, as a fully-functional Pascal setup, would be an amazing
- non-commercial release! Probably rather too much for Acorn to contemplate
- though... I guess the libraries account for most of the cost of the C
- package. I just can't help feeling there might be a lot of disappointed
- people when they realise they have this Pascal compiler but can't use it
- without buying Desktop C or Assembler. Not Acorn's fault, but you can see
- how it might rebound publicity-wise. Still a nice idea, well worth
- thinking about.
-
- Graham allan@mnhep8.hep.umn.edu
- gta@st-andrews.ac.uk
-
-