sean@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Sean Sterling Foiles) (04/10/91)
Does anyone know the customer support line for Mark William's C? Thanks, sean@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu.UUCP (Sean Sterling Foiles)
laurent@hpgnd.grenoble.hp.com (Laurent JULLIARD) (04/18/91)
My understanding is that the Mark Williams Company is now closed ! So I can hardly imagine you find any support line. Best regards, Laurent JULLIARD (laurent@hpgnzeus.grenoble.hp.com)
steve@thelake.mn.org (Steve Yelvington) (04/20/91)
[In article <1400001@hpgnd.grenoble.hp.com>,
laurent@hpgnd.grenoble.hp.com (Laurent JULLIARD) writes ... ]
> My understanding is that the Mark Williams Company is now closed !
>
> So I can hardly imagine you find any support line.
I think that might come as a surprise to Mark Williams Co.
They're doing a land-office business* selling Coherent, a small
Unix-like operating system for the IBM-PC and clones.
They may have kissed off the Atari market, though.
Other companies have not done so. In fact, I understand there's a new
SAS C compiler for the ST -- the latest version of Aladdin was compiled
with it.
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*``Land-office business'' is an American idiom having to do with the rush
to claim land for homesteading in the old West.
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Steve Yelvington, Marine on St. Croix, Minnesota, USA / steve@thelake.mn.orgsean@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Sean Sterling Foiles) (04/21/91)
In article <1400001@hpgnd.grenoble.hp.com> laurent@hpgnd.grenoble.hp.com (Laurent JULLIARD) writes: >My understanding is that the Mark Williams Company is now closed ! > >So I can hardly imagine you find any support line. > >Best regards, >Laurent JULLIARD >(laurent@hpgnzeus.grenoble.hp.com) You are, unfortunately, quite correct. I did speak to a representative that basically knew 2 things. 1. He was on a phone. and, 2. It was a nice phone. Other than that, v 3.0.5 was the last and final product released for MWC. Mark Williams Company, however, is not dead - only the support for the Atari. || Sean Sterling Foiles || || sean@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu || || Comp Sci Grad of Univ of Texas ||
saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs) (04/23/91)
In article <1400001@hpgnd.grenoble.hp.com> laurent@hpgnd.grenoble.hp.com (Laurent JULLIARD) writes: >My understanding is that the Mark Williams Company is now closed ! > >So I can hardly imagine you find any support line. > Mark Williams company is still operating (MUCH MUCH more successfully than ever). They seem less inclined to do anything for the ST as time goes on, but their commitment to continue supporting the products they've already sold seems firm. Their present flagship product is the COHERENT operating system for PCs (a small, modular UNIX-alike). I got some particulars mixed up in a previous message (now cancelled). They've changed phone numbers again, and I think they've moved, but they're still in the suburbs, not back in Chicago. Anyway, if you call the main number (708)291-6700 and say you need support for their C compiler for the Atari ST, you should do alright. What you get is going to be essentially whatever a bright guy who hasn't used the ST C compiler lately (or perhaps ever) can give you with online access to the source code and the problem reports/fixes database. That's enough for most stuff that'll come up. Steve saj@chinet.chi.il.us