On Monday, 97/03/10, Peter Haywood wrote to David Noon about
"Compilers??" as follows:
Hi Peter,
PH>   $190??? Cripes! Here in Australia it costs *alot* more than that.
PH> Everything's expensive here.
Tell me about it. I grew up in Melbourne.
PH> I recently paid $520 for Watcom 10.6.
That's about US$370. You paid too much. Why don't you try ordering
directly from the USA.
I did that about a year ago because I thought UK prices were too
steep. I ordered IBM Visual Age C++ for OS/2 from Indelible Blue in
North Carolina. When I registered that copy, IBM realised that their
UK-based resellers would be undersold by cheaper US-sourced copies, so
they prohibited all their resellers from exporting IBM products.
Sybase/Powersoft/Watcom don't have such a restriction, so you could
have bought from the USA -- or even the UK, where the compiler was also
fairly cheap.
I just bought the upgrade to Watcom C/C++ 11.0 for 90 quid. At that
price it wasn't worth the hassle of getting an import through customs.
PH> People in America don't know how good they have it!
For buying technology cheaply, too right.
Regards
Dave

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