In a message dated 12-28-98, Tobias Ernst said to David Noon about
"Timeslice release"

Hi Tobias,

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TE>And luckily, on those Warp releases where the DPMI time 
TE>slice does not work, you can apply the kernel patch which 
TE>can be found at 

TE>wwwcip.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/~phy27258/mdosbug.html

I saw this patch posted on Fido but haven't tried it.

TE>Other subject:

 DN> 

TE>Is this a joke or do you mean this serious?

It is serious. To find out more e-mail Carolyn at teampli{at}vnet.ibm.com,
which is IBM Santa Teresa labs., where the PL/I compilers are written.

I use Visual Age PL/I for OS/2 Version 2.0, Standard Edition. It is a very
powerful compiler, a _superset_ of the mainframe language, but costs a
bundle to buy.

TE>I would be 
TE>interested in having PL/I or a compiler derived from that 
TE>for use at home (I have been working at an IBM side where 
TE>they used a special purpose language that has been derived 
TE>from PL/I, and I liked it),

Probably PL/X, also known as PL/S or PL/AS. It is a mighty spiffy language
for writing operating system code.

TE>but the IBM PL/I compiler for OS/2 is simply too expensive :-|,

Yes, Murray Lesser and I have been griping about that in this echo for some
few months.

TE>and they don't seem to offer reduced educational prices.

This is yet another gripe about the marketing of PL/I compilers. They should
allow academic institutions preferential pricing, otherwise nobody will
offer PL/I training courses.

Regards

Dave

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