Phlebas@cup.portal.com (Peter Peter Weldon) (03/28/89)
Does anyone know what happened to Turbo Modula-2 ? Where can I get a copy ?
GRANGERG@VTVM1.BITNET (Greg Granger) (03/29/89)
| Does anyone know what happened to Turbo Modula-2 ? | Where can I get a copy ? Rumor has it that Borland sold there M2 product for the IBM PCs to JPI. However, Borland does (or did) sell a version of M2 for CPM. Greg
samlb@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Sam Bassett RCD) (03/29/89)
Turbo M-2 for CP/M-80 is simply not available. It was being handled by Echelon, but they, in turn, seem to have disappeared. What was to have become Turbo M-2 for MS/PC-DOS is now being sold by Jensen Partners Int'l (JPI), as "Lightspeed", I think -- I have a copy and love it -- especially the dubugger, but can never remember the brand name . . . JPI M-2 is a lot easier to remember . . . Sam'l Bassett, Sterling Software @ NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field CA 94035 Work: (415) 694-4792; Home: (415) 454-7282 samlb%well@lll-crg.ARPA samlb@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov <Standard Disclaimer> := 'Sterling doesn't _have_ opinions -- much less NASA!'
ACPS2971@RYERSON.BITNET (PATRICK WINGERT) (03/29/89)
Borland stopped marketing it about five years ago and seems to have no future plans of wither marketing it or developing it into another of thier great language products...shame I would like them to do up a modula3 compiler. VM/Tiger-Patrick Wingert "Just because it's broke don't mean we have to fix it."
brf5422@tahoma.UUCP (Bruce R. Finney) (04/01/89)
From article <16350@cup.portal.com>, by Phlebas@cup.portal.com (Peter Peter Weldon): > Does anyone know what happened to Turbo Modula-2 ? > Where can I get a copy ? Turbo Modula-2 for CP/M is currently available from Micro Mint. -- Bruce Finney AT&T: (206) 237-5837 Boeing Commercial Airplane UUCP: ..!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!shuksan!tahoma!brf5422 PO Box 3707, M/S 96-05 Renton Flight Simulation Lab Seattle, WA 98124-2207 "You make it, we fake it!"
vk@CUNIXA.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Victor Kan) (04/03/89)
> Rumor has it that Borland sold their M2 product for the IBM PCs to JPI.
Borland did sell M2 to JPI.
Niels Jensen, the J of JPI, was a co-founder of Borland
International and is currently the president of JPI. Jensen paid
a lot of money for Borland's Modula-2, Ada and C compilers
(albeit incomplete Ada and C products) about two years ago.
Since he was a founder of Borland, he probably ended up getting
some of that money back when he divested from the company.
That C compiler was the one Borland was working on before they
decided to acquire the existing Wizard C compiler (the progenitor
of the current Turbo C).
[Most of] This information comes from an interview with Niels
Jensen printed in "The Connection" magazine's Fall 1988 issue.
Victor