info-mac@uw-beaver (02/01/85)
From: <bang!crash!bwebster@Nosc> > But is Borland working on Turbo Pascal for the Mac, too??? There was a > blurb printed in INFORWORLD last year to the effect that Borland wasn't > going to do Turbo for the Mac, because of lack of cooperation from > Apple. True or not? My last message to info-mac got mangled (at least the version that got back to me had a few lines missing), so I'll repeat what I said: Philippe Kahn told me (and has told people on CompuServe) that Borland will, indeed, do a Turbo Pascal for the Mac. BUT, (and this could be a big "BUT"), their work for Commodore on the Amiga machine takes precedence over any work on a Mac product, so there's no telling when the product might be done. I, for one, sure wish he'd hurry up. I'm using MacAdvantage right now (UCSD Pascal running under the finder). It's actually a very nice system, but it is *slow* in execution. I've converted my Go board over to it (from MacFORTH), and I've got it now playing Go against me . . . well, more accurately, it can make moves, though I make no claims for how intelligent those moves are. Anyway, each time I try to add some brains, things slow down even more. It's frustrating waiting 10 (or more) seconds for a move that *still* isn't all that smart. Anyway, a true compiled Pascal would be just marvelous (why hasn't Apple come out with a version of Lisa Pascal running on a 512K machine?). ..bruce.. Bruce Webster/BYTE bang!crash!bwebster@nosc