joel@gould9.UUCP (Joel West) (10/28/86)
There have been some disparaging comments made about the accuracy of
InfoWorld recently, but their Oct. 27 issue offers some interesting
observations about Borland and the Macintosh. The material seems to be a
reliable indication of Borland's views, since it is a paid advertisement.
I quote without apologies:
IF ANYTHING HAPPENED WITH OPERATING SYSTEMS IN 1986, IT'S STILL A SECRET
Except for some bug fixes and rumors of minicomputer type
operating systems (to be announced "real soon now") nothing
is really new. The world now knows that to try to make a PC
behave half as well as a Mac, you'll need an 80386, an EGA,
and a lot of patience.
And then, in the "real soon now" category:
BORLAND PRODUCTS
For the Apple Macintosh
Turbo Pascal (avail. Nov. 15) $99.95
This make about 11 months for Turbo Pascal in the rsn category. If
this version is not a beta, it will beat Apple's Pascal, though.
I also recall seeing an ad which indicates that Mac-Turbo-Pascal,
unlike the PC version, supports units and separate compilation.
--
Joel West MCI Mail: 282-8879
Western Software Technology, POB 2733, Vista, CA 92083
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joel%gould9.uucp@NOSC.ARPAnews@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (Usenet netnews) (10/29/86)
Organization : Calfornia Institute of Technology Keywords: vs. IBM-PC, T From: wetter@tybalt.caltech.edu (Pierce T. Wetter) Path: tybalt.caltech.edu!wetter >this version is not a beta, it will beat Apple's Pascal, though. >I also recall seeing an ad which indicates that Mac-Turbo-Pascal, >unlike the PC version, supports units and separate compilation. >-- If I remember correctly Borland sent me a brochure which promised MacApp compatabitity and its own development environment in 45K. If you don't beleive that claim you might want to look at the size of the IBM-PC version. Pierce Wetter --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- After [Benjamin] Franklin came a herd of Electrical Pioneers whose names have become part of our electrical terminology: Myron Volt, Mary Louise Amp, James Watt, Bob Transformer, etc. These pioneers conducted many important electrical experiments. For example, in 1780 Luigi Galvani discovered (this is the truth) that when he attached two different kinds of metal to the leg of a frog, an electrical current developed and the frog's leg kicked, even though it was no longer attached to the frog, which was dead anyway. Galvani's discovery led to enormous advances in the field of amphibian medicine. Today, skilled veterinary surgeons can take a frog that has been seriously injured or killed, implant pieces of metal in its muscles, and watch it hop back into the pond just like a normal frog, except for the fact that it sinks like a stone. -- Dave Barry, "What is Electricity?" -------------------------------------------- wetter@tybalt.caltech.edu --------------------------------------------