🚀 go-pugleaf

Just in case anyone is interested...

I called up Stony Brook Software today to see how they were coming along
on meeting their "end of October" ship date for their upcoming 32-bit
Windows Modula-2 compiler.  They said it will definitely NOT be out
by the end of October, and it was looking more like the end of November
or the first couple weeks of December.  To put this in perspective,
I've been enquiring as to the ship date of this for the last 7 months, 
and the responses have been:

  3/95  -- 3 months away
  5/95  -- 2 months away
  9/95  -- 2 months away
 11/95  -- 1 month away

So perhaps it'll be out in a few more months... ;-)

Some other tidbits from the conversation:

* This new version will implement the ISO Standard language and libraries, 
  with the exception of "Processes" and "Semaphores".  The previous 
  Stony Brook libraries will NOT be supported.
 
* The development environment will run under Windows 95 or Windows NT. 
  You CANNOT develop under DOS/Windows 3.1.  The compiler WILL generate 
  code which will run under DOS/Windows 3.1 however, in addition to 
  Windows 95 and NT code.  With various workarounds and additional
  files available separately from Stony Brook, it sounds like you might
  be able to get some of it to work (sorta) under OS/2.
     
* The price will be US$495.

As per the Modula-2 FAQ, Stony Brook Software can be contacted at:
  187 E. Wilbur, Suite 4
  Thousand Oaks CA 91360
  USA
  
voice: +1 (805) 496-5837
BBS  : +1 (805) 379-3357

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Marc Martin, marc@wln.com