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MCL 3.0 products, pricing, availability
- To: announce-mcl@digitool.com
- Subject: MCL 3.0 products, pricing, availability
- From: hsayed@digitool.com (Hazem Sayed)
- Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 20:41:24 -0500
- Sender: owner-info-mcl@digitool.com
PLEASE CROSS-POST WIDELY AS APPROPRIATE
MCL 3.0 is now slated to ship in June, 1995. The final testing period has
been extended to assure the highest level of product reliability and
compatibility with upcoming Macintosh hardware.
The following new information about the nature, availability, and pricing
of MCL 3.0 products is provided for the benefit of the MCL community and
supersedes prior announcements. It includes product and price information
for MCL 3.0, the upgrade for existing customers, and the redistribution
kits for MCL applications and the MCL compiler.
Of special note are new price categories for personal use of MCL. These
are only available directly from Digitool, which is now taking orders from
students and individuals. Commercial and educational institutions will
continue to order from APDA, which will begin taking orders for MCL 3.0
products in the second week of June, 1995.
Thank you for your continued support of MCL.
Hazem Sayed
Digitool, Inc.
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One Main Street 7th Floor Cambridge, MA 02142 USA
Internet: hsayed@digitool.com AppleLink: digitool
World Wide Web: http://www.digitool.com/
Tel: 617 441-5000 Fax: 617 576-7680
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MACINTOSH COMMON LISP 3.0
PRODUCTS - PRICES - AVAILABILITY
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PRODUCTS
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MCL 3.0:
This is the first version of MCL that supports multiple processes, Apple's
WorldScript, and the ability to create distributable applications of
reduced disk footprint (with the optional MCL-AppGen utility included in
the Redistribution Kit described below). By itself, MCL 3.0 creates fully
customized applications designated as "Lisp Development Systems" which may
not be distributed or sold other than as part of the distribution or sale
of MCL itself (e.g. distribution within an MCL site-licensed institution or
via the inclusion of a full MCL license with each Lisp Development System
sold). With MCL-AppGen, MCL creates smaller "MCL Distributable
Applications" as described below.
The MCL 3.0 package includes a CD-ROM and both on-line and hardcopy
versions of the documentation: "Getting Started with MCL," "MCL Reference,"
and "Supplement to MCL Reference."
MCL 3.0 CHAMPION EDITION:
Identical in software content and capability to MCL 3.0, this reduced price
edition is available only to individuals and students for championing the
use of MCL at home, in companies, or universities. The Champion Edition
package includes the same CD as in the MCL 3.0 product with complete
on-line documentation and a hardcopy of the "Supplement to MCL Reference";
and is available only from Digitool. See below for qualifications and
ordering details.
MCL 3.0 REDISTRIBUTION KIT (beta release):
This includes both a utility, called MCL-AppGen, for creating MCL
Distributable Applications with a reduced disk footprint, and a license to
distribute an unlimited number of such applications ROYALTY-FREE. MCL
Distributable Applications created with MCL-AppGen will be nominally
500-800K smaller than their Lisp Development System counterparts.
The minimal 500K savings is achieved by the absence of the debugging tools
(trace, step, backtrace, etc.), development tools (Apropos, Get Info
dialog, etc.), listener windows, and the compiler from the MCL
Distributable Application. An additional 300K of space savings is possible
by the optional exclusion of the evaluator, macro definitions, and some
other modules.
The MCL 3.0 Redistribution Kit with its license replaces the MCL 2.x Object
Code Redistribution License, previously available through Apple Software
Licensing.
MCL COMPILER REDISTRIBUTION KIT (beta release):
This includes both the MCL compiler as a separate module, and a license to
incorporate it in an unlimited number of MCL Distributable Applications
ROYALTY-FREE. The MCL Compiler Redistribution Kit is required only when
shipping applications that call the MCL compiler at runtime. Good
candidate applications for such use of the MCL compiler include scriptable
CAD packages and new programming languages.
The MCL Compiler Redistribution Kit is not needed for creating Lisp
Development Systems, as the MCL compiler is included with the MCL 3.0
product.
PRICES
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Licenses for MCL 3.0 and its Redistribution Kits will be available at price
points for each of Commercial, Educational, Individual Champion, and
Student Champion customer categories. The categories refer to the status
of the owner of the license and not to how the license is used. For
example, a company would purchase a "commercial" license even if it was
distributing its MCL applications for free, while a university would
purchase an "educational" license even if it were selling its MCL
applications.
COMMERCIAL: applies to any incorporated or unincorporated business,
organization or agency, whether for profit or not, other than an
educational institution as defined below.
EDUCATIONAL: applies to any school, university, or educational center
engaged in teaching and not simply in research (e.g. MIT is educational,
Draper Labs is not). To qualify for an Educational price, the order must
be paid for by the educational institution (not by a staff or faculty
member).
INDIVIDUAL CHAMPION: applies to any individual purchasing MCL for their own
personal use. To qualify for an individual champion price, the order must
be placed and paid for by the individual.
STUDENT CHAMPION: applies to a student registered at an educational
institution as defined above. To qualify for the student price, the order
must be placed and paid for by the student and accompanied by a copy of
their current student ID.
Licenses for the commercial and educational customer categories will be
available from APDA and its overseas representatives. Licenses for the
individual and student champion customer categories will be available only
from Digitool, Inc.
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| PRODUCT / PRICE | AVAILABLE FROM APDA | AVAILABLE FROM DIGITOOL |
|----------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------|
| Product | Commercial Educational | Personal Student |
| ---------- | ----------- ----------- | ----------- ----------- |
| MCL 3.0 | $595.00 $475.00 | |
| | | |
| MCL 3.0 | | $295.00 $135.00 |
| Champion Edition | | |
| | | |
| MCL 3.0 Upgrade | $135.00 $108.00 | $108.00 $75.00 * |
| | | |
| MCL 3.0 | $400.00 $320.00 | $400.00 $320.00 |
| Redistribution Kit | | |
| | | |
| MCL 3.0 Compiler | $2000.00 $1600.00 | $2000.00 $1600.00 |
| Redistribution Kit | | |
| | | |
| MCL 3.0 Upgrade & | $335.00 ** $228.00 **| $300.00 ** $195.00 **|
| 3.0 Redistribution | | |
| Kit Bundle | | |
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* MCL copies previously sold to students at a nominal charge by their
university, as part of the university's site license, are not eligible for
this offer as such copies are simply extensions of the university site
license.
** Limited time offer that expires 8/1/95.
AVAILABILITY
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MCL 3.0, MCL 3.0 Champion Edition, and MCL 3.0 Upgrade will ship in June,
1995. The MCL Redistribution Kits will ship two weeks later as a beta
release. Customers who purchase a Redistribution Kit beta release
automatically receive the final release.
APDA will begin taking orders from commercial and educational customers in
the second week of June, 1995. Digitool is presently taking orders from
individual and student customers. Please use the part numbers and
addresses below when ordering from APDA or Digitool.
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| PRODUCT / PART NUMBER| AVAILABLE FROM APDA | AVAILABLE FROM DIGITOOL |
|----------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------|
| Product | Commercial / Educational | Personal Student |
| ---------- | ------------------------ | ----------- ----------- |
| MCL 3.0 | R0167Z/C | |
| | | |
| MCL 3.0 | | MCL-CE/P MCL-CE/S |
| Champion Edition | | |
| | | |
| MCL 3.0 Upgrade | R0561Z/B | MCL-3U/P MCL-3U/S |
| | | |
| MCL 3.0 | R0656Z/A | MCL-RK/P MCL-RK/S |
| Redistribution Kit | | |
| | | |
| MCL 3.0 Compiler | R0657Z/A | MCL-CRK/P MCL-CRK/S |
| Redistribution Kit | | |
| | | |
| MCL 3.0 Upgrade & | B2504Z/A | MCL-URK/P MCL-URK/S |
| 3.0 Redistribution | | |
| Kit Bundle | | |
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Send your order as a commercial or educational institution to APDA after
June 12, 1995:
Mail: APDA
Apple Computer, Inc.
P.O. Box 319
Buffalo, NY 14207-0319
U.S.A.
Tel: 1-800-282-2732 (U.S.)
1-800-637-0029 (Canada)
+1-716-871-6555 (International)
Fax: 1-716-871-6511
E-mail: APDA (AppleLink)
76666,2405 (CompuServe)
APDA@applelink.apple.com (Internet)
APDAorder (America Online)
Send your personal order as a student or individual to Digitool, Inc.:
Mail: Digitool, Inc.
One Main Street
Cambridge, MA 02142
U.S.A
Tel: 1-617-441-5000
Fax: 1-617-576-7680
E-mail: orders@digitool.com (Internet)
digitool (AppleLink)
Prices and products subject to change without notice.
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