psc@lznv.ATT.COM (Paul S. R. Chisholm) (07/10/87)
In article <2003@drivax.UUCP>, alexande@drivax.UUCP writes: > I heard a rumour that Turbo-C is actually Wizard-C that has been > modified by Borland to be faster and flashier. Can anyone confirm > or deny this? Yep. Actually, Brad Silverberg (Turbo C product manager at Borland) has already denied this in INFO-IBMPC, nee comp.sys.ibm.pc.digest. Borland has bought some fair chunk of Wizard, and the former main honcho at Wizard is now a Borland employee. (I don't remember his name offhand, but he's on the ANSI C committee.) However, they've rewritten it pretty thoroughly. It now compiles faster, and has the "integrated environment". Borland lowered the price of the library source code from $295 to $150 before it was actually shipped. It should be shipping by now. (Anyone ordered it? Anyone gotten it yet?) The header files all now say: #if __STDC__ instead of #ifdef __STDC__ to be compatible with the -A (ANSI compatibility) option. The compiler has had several patches to it. (Thanks to the user who forwarded some of them here). The libraries haven't been changed. Borland is in a tight spot, of a sort. They've sold one hundred thousand (!) copies of Turbo C. As a result, they're extremely reluctant to ship any sort of upgrade to the world unless it's *really* necessary. I suspect (this is only my opinion) they won't provide any updates until 1.1 is available, which will have more features as well as bug fixes. -Paul S. R. Chisholm, UUCP {ihnp4,cbosgd,allegra,vax135,mtune}!lznv!psc AT&T Mail !psrchisholm, Internet psc@lznv.att.com I'm not speaking for my employer, I'm just speaking my mind.