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From article <1jnhfnINNn11@uwm.edu>, by tanith@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mike Kretzer):
> I just received an upgrade form for Microsoft MASM 6.1.  Does anyone
> know if it will still run under OS/2 as an OS/2 application like
> MASM 6.0?

I also received a notice of the 6.1 upgrade available.  What was my
first response?  I WROTE A LETTER ASKING FOR INFORMATION ABOUT AN
OS/2 COMPABLE VERSION.

ALL PROGRAMMERS!  Please do the same!  If we send enough request to 
the MASM division of Microsoft, perhaps they will consider us real
enough to be included in future releases.  They give you a postage
free envelope.  Just add a note (preferrably on company letterhead)
saying:

"Thank you for the information concerning MASM 6.1.  However, we are
committed to supporting OS/2 environments.  Would you please send me
information on a 32 bit version of MASM supporting OS/2 2.0.  Thank
you."

-- 
Michael O. Thompson            tommy@msc.cornell.edu
Cornell University             (607) 255-4714

OS/2:  For the few, the proud, the devoted!

> ALL PROGRAMMERS!  Please do the same!  If we send enough request to 
< the MASM division of Microsoft, perhaps they will consider us real
> enough to be included in future releases.  They give you a postage
< free envelope.  Just add a note (preferrably on company letterhead)
> saying:

> "Thank you for the information concerning MASM 6.1.  However, we are
< committed to supporting OS/2 environments.  Would you please send me
> information on a 32 bit version of MASM supporting OS/2 2.0.  Thank
< you."

Don't forget to put an "ATTN: Management" (or something like that) in
the address or it will probably just be tossed out by some data entry
sales person who doesn't want to get out of his chair to forward it.
(People are lazy these days)

I happened to have the C/C++ w/ Win31 SDK upgrade envelope sitting
arround so I have also sent in a letter in regards to my disapointment
in MSC no longer supporting OS/2 development.  In it I also wrote that
many other comp.os.os2.programmer subscribers would also be sending
letters of decline.  Ok, this was presumptous of me, but I figure were
all have at least similar complaints.

Please don't let your fellow OS/2 developers down with your silence!

Work hard and prosper,

Pete W. De Bonte (x4173)                    pwd+@cmu.edu 
"Knolege is powef, Speling is unimportnt"   (but pd2n is unaceptable)

In article <1993Jan22.155527.21535@msc.cornell.edu> tommy@lynx.msc.cornell.edu.UUCP (Mike Thompson,332,54714,2734927) writes:
>From article <1jnhfnINNn11@uwm.edu>, by tanith@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mike Kretzer):
>> I just received an upgrade form for Microsoft MASM 6.1.  Does anyone
>> know if it will still run under OS/2 as an OS/2 application like
>> MASM 6.0?
>
>I also received a notice of the 6.1 upgrade available.  What was my
>first response?  I WROTE A LETTER ASKING FOR INFORMATION ABOUT AN
>OS/2 COMPABLE VERSION.
>
>ALL PROGRAMMERS!  Please do the same!  If we send enough request to 
>the MASM division of Microsoft, perhaps they will consider us real
>enough to be included in future releases.  They give you a postage
>free envelope.  Just add a note (preferrably on company letterhead)
>saying:
>
>"Thank you for the information concerning MASM 6.1.  However, we are
>committed to supporting OS/2 environments.  Would you please send me
>information on a 32 bit version of MASM supporting OS/2 2.0.  Thank
>you."

I appreciate your zeal, but don't bet on it.  As long as Mr. Gates 
has blinkers on, your plea will fall on deaf ears.

I'd like to see a good, third-party m. asm. come out that doesn't
use Microsoft or Borland anything.  

You know what happens to people who buy operating systems and compilers
from potential competitors.  When they need support, they get 
the chromium-plated shaft!!

cpk
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