nacer@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com (Abdenacer Moussaoui) (09/15/89)
Does anybody know when borland is planning to release a TP for OS2, like everybody we would like to port our tools to this new environment with little effort as possible? (re-compile) Does MS pascal (4.0) support OS2? Thank you.
boerner@ut-emx.UUCP (Brendan B. Boerner) (09/23/89)
In article <1490003@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com> nacer@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com (Abdenacer Moussaoui) writes: > >Does anybody know when borland is planning to release a TP for OS2, >like everybody we would like to port our tools to this new environment >with little effort as possible? (re-compile) > >Does MS pascal (4.0) support OS2? > >Thank you. According to a recent PC Week article, Borland has decided to put Turbo language products for OS/2 on the shelf for awhile and concentrate on Windows products. According to Borland, they ran some surveys and concluded that the buyers of their language products didn't place a high priority on OS/2 versions. Some comments from me: 1) One major reason why I haven't scrambled to write any code for OS/2 (even non-production code which would only serve to teach me various concepts) is because I wouldn't be able to use TP. 2) How did they conduct this survey? Who are these programmers who don't want a version for OS/2? Am I in a minority? Brendan -- Brendan B. Boerner Phone: 512/471-3241 Microcomputer Technologies The University of Texas @ Austin Internet: boerner@emx.utexas.edu UUCP: ...!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!boerner BITNET: CCGB001@UTXVM.BITNET AppleLink: boerner@emx.utexas.edu@DASNET#
gaz@boulder.Colorado.EDU (GAZ RANDALL LOUIS) (09/23/89)
In article <18698@ut-emx.UUCP> boerner@emx.UUCP (Brendan B. Boerner) writes: >In article <1490003@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com> nacer@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com (Abdenacer Moussaoui) writes: >> >>Does anybody know when borland is planning to release a TP for OS2, >>like everybody we would like to port our tools to this new environment >>with little effort as possible? (re-compile) >> >>Does MS pascal (4.0) support OS2? >> >>Thank you. > >According to a recent PC Week article, Borland has decided to put Turbo >language products for OS/2 on the shelf for awhile and concentrate on >Windows products. According to Borland, they ran some surveys and >concluded that the buyers of their language products didn't place a >high priority on OS/2 versions. The reason that Borland ( and other developers ) are not working on OS/2 products is because there is no market (yet). Windows is outselling OS/2 by a very wide margin, so there is MONEY involved with Windows, but not OS/2. The only market segment that OS/2 is doing well in is with developers, because it has memory protection features for debugging those pesky pointer bugs. I am not flaming OS/2, in fact I will get a copy when I get a 386, but there is no one with money who wants it right now. Randall Gaz