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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