mike@lll-lcc.aRpA (Mike Hummell) (09/22/87)
Turbo Pascal 4.0 will be out in October; which day is unspecified. From E. E. Times 9/14/87:: "Turbo Pascal 4.0 will ship next month. Still $99.95, but existing Turbo Pascal owners can upgrade to 4.0 for $39.95" "...27000 lines per minute on an 8Mhz AT ..." "... allows multi-megabyte addressing..." I called Borland [ (408) 438-8400 or (800) 543-7543 ]. You can upgrade over-the-phone with a Mastercard # and your Turbo Pascal serial number, or you can do it by mail by sending the top-half of your Turbo Pascal diskette and $39.95 +$5.00 shipping + sales tax if you're in California.
dick@plx.UUCP (Dick Flanagan) (09/22/87)
Summary: Expires: Sender: Followup-To: In article <1162@lll-lcc.aRpA> mike@lll-lcc.aRpA (Mike Hummell) writes: >[...] >I called Borland [ (408) 438-8400 or (800) 543-7543 ]. >You can upgrade over-the-phone with a Mastercard # and your Turbo Pascal >serial number, or you can do it by mail by sending the top-half of your >Turbo Pascal diskette . . . . . Which half is the top half? Is it the top half looking at it from side 0 with the timing hole straight up, or does the timing hole have to be down? You don't suppose you are supposed to slice it and just send them side 0, do you? I mean, I would hate to have my upgrade refused because I sent them the wrong half. . . . -- Dick Flanagan, W6OLD I'll take a drug test when UUCP: ...!ucbvax!sun!plx!dick Reagan takes an IQ test. GEnie: FLA 2 as
perkins@bnrmtv.UUCP (Henry Perkins) (09/22/87)
In article <1162@lll-lcc.aRpA>, mike@lll-lcc.aRpA (Mike Hummell) writes: > From E. E. Times 9/14/87:: > "Turbo Pascal 4.0 will ship next month. Still $99.95, but > existing Turbo Pascal owners can upgrade to 4.0 for $39.95" > > I called Borland [ (408) 438-8400 or (800) 543-7543 ]. > You can upgrade over-the-phone with a Mastercard # and your Turbo Pascal > serial number, or you can do it by mail by sending the top-half of your > Turbo Pascal diskette and $39.95 +$5.00 shipping + sales tax if you're in > California. MOST Turbo Pascal owners can upgrade by phone order with a credit card and their serial number. However, Borland has lost their only copies of two blocks of serial numbers. Owners in those two blocks will have to send in the disk to get the upgrade, since Borland can't verify genuine ownership any other way. Yes, I'm one of those lucky Turbo Pascal owners. -- {hplabs,amdahl,ames}!bnrmtv!perkins --Henry Perkins It is better never to have been born. But who among us has such luck? One in a million, perhaps.
cls@psuvm.bitnet.UUCP (09/27/87)
intergrated environment? And is the code produced still compatible with
Turbo Power's Turbo Optimizer?
Of course, with such a cheap upgrade cost, a person may as well update
, even if the integrated environment is the only new feature!
[Tim]
archer@elysium.SGI.COM (Archer Sully) (09/28/87)
In article <20944CLS@PSUVM>, CLS@PSUVM.BITNET writes: > > About Turbo Pascal 4.0, what new features does it have, besides the > Organization: The Pennsylvania State University - Computation Center > Lines: 7 > Xref: sun comp.sys.ibm.pc:8305 comp.lang.pascal:316 > > intergrated environment? And is the code produced still compatible with > Turbo Power's Turbo Optimizer? > Of course, with such a cheap upgrade cost, a person may as well update > , even if the integrated environment is the only new feature! > > [Tim] > It's pretty unlikely that Turbo Optimizer will still work. It sounds like the compiler has been changed a lot, and since its now capable of using large model, I suspect the code generator has changed a whole lot. You should contact Turbo Power to find out for sure. PS: at 27,000 lines/minute on an 8-Mhz AT I really doubt that its doing a whole lot of optimization itself. Although the guy that wrote that compiler >>is<< awfully clever... Archer Sully archer@sgi.com {ucbvax,sun,ames,pyramid,decwrl}!sgi!archer
frisk@krafla.UUCP (09/29/87)
>In article <20944CLS@PSUVM>, CLS@PSUVM.BITNET writes: >It's pretty unlikely that Turbo Optimizer will still work. It is sure not to work, since the compiler now generates .EXE files instead of .COM files.