gbs@voder.UUCP (George Smith) (01/30/85)
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I saw a reference to a publication called "Modula-2 News" in the
USENIX Winter Conference Dallas 1985 Proceedings. The issue cited
was #0 from October 1984. Is this a new magazine or newsletter?
If anyone has information on it, please send me mail or reply to
the net. On a different (altho very exciting topic), I called
Borland Inc the other day and they said they were going to start
shipping Turbo Modula-2 in March. They would not say what the
pricing would be!? The tech on the phone said "It is hot!".
--
George B. Smith
National Semiconductor
...!{ihnp4!nsc | decvax!decwrl!nsc | ucbvax}!voder!gbsg-frank@gumby.UUCP (02/01/85)
> I saw a reference to a publication called "Modula-2 News" in the > USENIX Winter Conference Dallas 1985 Proceedings. The issue cited > was #0 from October 1984. Is this a new magazine or newsletter? > If anyone has information on it, please send me mail or reply to > the net. On a different (altho very exciting topic), I called > Borland Inc the other day and they said they were going to start > shipping Turbo Modula-2 in March. They would not say what the > pricing would be!? The tech on the phone said "It is hot!". > > -- > George B. Smith > National Semiconductor > ...!{ihnp4!nsc | decvax!decwrl!nsc | ucbvax}!voder!gbs Modula-2 News is published by the Modula 2 Users' Society, which is run out of some consulting firm in Silicon Valley. I'll look up their address when I get home, and post it in a subsequent message. You can also get their address from Logitech, and while I'm at it, I wanted to mention that Logitech has released version 1.1 of their Modula-2/86 compiler. The new version has some new improved libraries, especially with regard to real conversions (to and from text), a couple new Wirth-approved changes (character constants of length 1 are now assignment compatible with ARRAY OF CHAR - hooray!), much faster compile and link times, and floating point emulation (no need for 8087 anymore). There is also a new RUN-TIME symbolic debugger. This has all the very impressive symbolic features of the post-mortem debugger that comes standard with the package, but it is an interactive debugging tool, allowing you to set breakpoints in the source code and other such wonderful things. Unfortunately, you have to pay for all this neat stuff (the debugger is $200 extra, the update is $75 if you are a current customer of V.1.0). But, what comes free, eh? Once again, I'll post the address for the Users' Society one of these days. -- Dan Frank "good news is just life's way of keeping you off balance."
g-frank@gumby.UUCP (02/01/85)
> Modula-2 News is published by the Modula 2 Users' Society, which is > run out of some consulting firm in Silicon Valley. I'll look up > their address when I get home, and post it in a subsequent message. > Here it is: Modula-2 Users' Association c/o Pacific Systems Group P.O. Box 51778 Palo Alto, CA 94303 Membership per year is $20.00. Don't hold your breath, by the way - in a year of membership I only got ONE newsletter. -- Dan Frank "good news is just life's way of keeping you off balance."
bob@sdcsvax.UUCP (Robert Hofkin) (02/05/85)
> Don't hold your breath, by the way - in > a year of membership I only got ONE newsletter. Issue #1 was in my mailbox last night.