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Re: Tawk 5.0 doc available

From "Arti F. Idiot" <addr@is.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.awk
Subject Re: Tawk 5.0 doc available
Date 2025-02-25 17:21 -0700
Organization Anarchists of America
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On 2/25/25 4:06 PM, Keith Thompson wrote:
> Described here:<http://www.tasoft.com/tawk.html> (last updated in
> 2003; I'm impressed that the website still exists).
> 
> "Thompson Automation Software has ceased actively selling software."
> 
> They also sold the "Thompson Toolkit", which apparently provided
> UNIX-like shells and tools for DOS, OS/2, and Windows.
> 
> I see nothing indicating how their software can be obtained or how much
> it would have cost.

I found a price list on the Internet Archive; IIRC single seat for 
toolkit and TAWK compiler was ~$200 (late 90s).

While poking around I found a MKS Toolkit which sounds very similar to 
this and is a current offering from PTC (Parametric Technology Corp; 
they mostly do CAD stuff).

-AI

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    Re: Tawk 5.0 doc available "Arti F. Idiot" <addr@is.invalid> - 2025-02-25 17:21 -0700
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