#: 14117 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
    30-Jan-92  01:31:36
Sb: #14111-Mshell Discount?
Fm: Jim Sutemeier 70673,1754
To: Jay Truesdale 72176,3565



Your idea sounds great.....but I doubt that it will happen.

I checked on the prices of both the latest version of the C Compiler, and also
MW's Lint program (well, that wasn't the name they used, but it sure does SOUND
like a lint program).

Both of them were $850, and they would NOT budge one red cent from that price.


The OSK marketplace is full of commercial users, not us home computer users,
from what I'm told, and they price their programs on the basis of what they
will sell for in the commercial marketplace.

As the OSK marketplace right now has between 5,000 and 10,000 systems, and us
68070/68000 new marketplace probably does not exceed about 250 (for all TC70,
MM/1 and System IV systems sold), our 'voice' will be little heard in Des
Moines.

If our 'new age' machines ever hit the 1-2,000 sales, then we might start
having a slightly larger say in pricing of MW stuff.

Until the, regretably,  we'll be the little fly buzzing around the head of MW.

I'm not putting us down, mind you, be we gotta look at this marketplace
realistically.

jim