On Saturday, 96/08/17, Harry Bush wrote to David Noon about "PL/I for
OS/2" as follows:

HB> Yeah... perhaps IBM should leave production of small series simply
HB> to distributors, provided that they use authorized PGP-signed file
HB> sets (therefore guaranteed against unauhorized patches).  Oh yes,
HB> that would be psychologically hard... - I just remembered how I
HB> tried to convince somebody to issue _signed_ fixpaks so that people
HB> would know if they have unforged issue downloaded over the Net.  I
HB> wasn't very successful in bringing public key cryptography back to
HB> IBM...

Hi Harry,

The concept of a 3rd party producing install media with the IBM logo
on it is a little foreign to many of the older parts of IBM. While the
PSP division probably has no problem with it, Santa Teresa labs is an
old mainframe site where even the tape itself was made by IBM when
preparing a distribution.

HB> Wow! Maybe they sometimes release vice versa some real hardware as
HB> software too? ;-))))

In IBM anything is possible.

HB> Yeah. For example, you could just visit me in Riga (nice town,
HB> great seaside, good beer etc. ;-)  and try to convince me to buy
HB> PL/I.  After a week of good-spent time, you probably might be
HB> successful... :))))

Good beer??? You know that I'm an Australian don't you? ... :-)

A week with me in town and the place would be "dry". [But only if the
beer's really good!]

HB>  > something like "We've implemented full OOP in the new
release" and left
HB>  > it at that. Just a minor re-architecting of the language.
HB> 
HB> What version are you speaking about - new 1.2?  Is it available
HB> already?

Version 1.2 is out and has been for about a month. I don't think we'll
see the docs on the object classes until 1.3, early next year. Only the
'inner circle' can use it at present.

Note that Personal Edition was not carried over into 1.2.

Regards

Dave


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