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From: dcmay1@mdw033.cc.monash.edu.au (Mr DC May)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.beta
Subject: Questions about Mjolner BETA
Date: 3 Jan 1995 20:22:34 GMT
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1.  When is BETA for the Commodore 64 coming out?

2.  Have the people at Mjolner considered the following situation?

      TIME magazine, June 26, 2001
      "Scandinavian Software house goes broke"

      Scandinavian software house, Mjolner Informatics, goes
      bankrupt because its customers mistakenly thought that its
      language products were always in a testing stage just prior to
      release.

      Says one customer: "The products were good.  We just
      thought that everything was always a Beta release.  Sorry."
      Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of the now-famous language 
      (*D--)++ said:  "Maybe they should have stuck with Simula++."

      This incident follows the bankruptcy of DEC after the same
      fate befell its Alpha machines.


Daniel