Roughly the same happened to us at the long forgotten B&B. We also had a shiny new P/390 that kept my office stifling hot. I'm guessing it was more like 1995 but it was a long time ago in any case. I would be surprised if it was available for more than a month or so before it was yanked back. One of my behind-the-blue-wall friends said that it had "escaped only until someone higher up noticed". Fun times.
CC Sent from my iPad > On Feb 24, 2014, at 8:34 PM, "Phil Smith III" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ray Mullins wrote, re PL/X: > >> It was a product at one time! It was made available back in (I think) the > >> late 1990s, although it was targeted at ISVs. But the response from ISVs > was > >> thunderous crickets, and after a while it was withdrawn. IIRC there were a > >> couple of ISVs who took it on. > > > > To be precise, the PL/X compiler was available to ISVs as part of PWD for a > while in about 1992 (+/- a year or two). We got it, because hey, why not? > > > > That was the year that PWD cost $5,000 to be a member. Partway through the > year, they changed the rules and decided it wasn't a chargeable thing after > all. So we were to et our money back! > > > > But then I got a call saying that since we had taken the compiler, and POK > had had to pay RAL for it, we wouldn't be getting $1600 of the $5K back. > Fortunately I hadn't told my boss about the $5K yet, so I got to go tell him > "We're getting a bunch of money back!", not "We're getting SOME money back, > because I accepted a supposedly free compiler that really wasn't". > > > > .phsiii
