Excerpted from message dated 01-30-97, David Noon to Murray Lesser:

DN>On Wednesday, 97/01/29, elderon{at}vnet.ibm.com wrote to All about "PL/I
  >newsletter" as follows:

e> Over the objections of the PL/I group here, the Personal Edition
e> was withdrawn when release 2 came out. Some customers have caused that
e> decision to be reevaluated and we will be shortly reintroducing a
e> Personal Edition.

DN>It looks like you won't have to buy the CICS and DB2 interfaces after
  >all.

Hi Dave--

    Thanks.  And I was just about to convince myself to lay out all
those bucks.  The only thing that was stopping me momentarily is that my
9-year-old copier blew yesterday and I had to buy a new one.

    I'll check in with Carolyn next week and see how things are going.
In the meantime, I am comparing v 1.2 (demo Professional from DevCon 12)
with my old 1.1 Personal edition.  I have both of them in different
directories of my H: drive, even though all the literature says that
this can't be done!  So I can compile the same source code with each,
link the results with the same ILINK environment, and compare.  So far,
1.2 seems to come out better: smaller executable files, slightly smaller
memory usage when running, and at least as fast, if not slightly faster
(measured on Sieve of Eratosthenes, which is easy to do but not very
informative).  Also, finding that 1.2 is fussier about following the
rules; not necessarily at compile time but certainly at run time.  I'm
still trying to figure out why one of my VIO API calls works fine under
1.1 but sometimes (but not always) produces an error return under 1.2.

Guess I'll have to learn about the debugger.

    Regards,
   
          --Murray

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