Excerpted from a message dated 10-17-98, Vince Coen to Murray Lesser:

VC>Hello Murray!

VC>Wednesday October 14 1998, Murray Lesser writes to David Noon:

 ML>   "VA PL/I V2.1 is the latest supported release.  The
"enterprise"
 ML>    edition is the only one available now, and it replaces both of the
 ML>    older editions, which includes standard.  CSDs will only be provided
 ML>    for V2.1

VC>I find this hard to understand as IBM's policy has been to supply
  >CSD or patches to current and one previous version.

Hi Vince--

    You may find it hard to understand, but this has been IBM's practice
with "workstation" language processors from the beginning.  For example:
IBM stopped issuing CSD's for the C compiler I use (IBM C/C++ Tools
(compiler) v 2.01 with CSD 12) when they issued VA C++ v 3.

    Perhaps you are confused by IBM practice with regard to operating
systems.  IBM announced only a few months ago that OS/2 2.1 would not be
made Y2K compatible, which indicates (to me) that they had been putting
out patches until that time.  For present (at least through 2001) they
are issuing FixPaks for both Warp 3 and Warp 4.

    Regards,

        --Murray

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