nagle@well.sf.ca.us (John Nagle) (05/17/91)
Well, it's out, but Zortech screwed up and shipped it with a MPW library disk missing. They promise a new disk Real Soon Now. The disks are plain green disks with labels printed on a dot-matrix printer, and the manuals are 8 1/2 x 11" GBC-bound, like something like you'd make at a copy shop. One manual came as unbound, loose sheets. Zortech's MS-DOS products are more professionally produced. This thing looks like a beta version rather than a finished product. No idea if the compiler is any good; it won't link without the missing disk. It successfully compiled a "hello world" program, but failed during link. So the compiler is at least alive. It even compiles under A/UX. I'd hold off on ordering; Zortech doesn't have its act together on this yet. From the specs, it may be a good product, but it's not yet usable. John Nagle