NETWORK@FRSAC11.BITNET (04/29/88)
Date: 29 April 1988, 12:35:45 GMT From: NETWORK at FRSAC11 To: INFO-ATARI16 at SCORE 'Went to the SICOB yesterday (Our french big annual computer/office fair), saw the Atari huge area, saw the PC2, PC4, ABAQ. PC2/PC4 are not for sale, hardware problems, list price for PC2 was given anyway. ABAQ (?) was running, a graphic demo on a beautiful screen (a NEC Multisynch XL). No trace of the '030. Seen a working version of Turbo C for Atari, seen the thing compile/link at very interesting speed, and even do the run for the well known Dhrystone 1.1 benchmark, saying: 1503. (I am impressed, the best I got with MWC 1.x was around 950, never did with 2.x. Somebody with 3.0 ?) (Hell it runs at more than 23000 on my usual UNIX box, but then it is a really expensive box.) But it is not for sale yet. the About Turbo C window says: Turbo C for Atari version 1, Borland & ???? (A german name most probably) Anybody got reliable infos about Turbo C on Atari. (I love good C compilers) That's all for now folks. Jean-Pierre H. Dumas network@frsac11 (bitnet) network%frsac11.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu (arpanet) dumas@sumex-aim.stanford.edu (arpanet)
saj@chinet.UUCP (Stephen Jacobs) (05/01/88)
I just got back from a Borland spectacular at the Chicago computer so- ciery. A regional level mucky-muck answered a question about Turbo C for the ST with "It isn't on my beta list". I guess that means not right away, and no promises.
david@bdt.UUCP (David Beckemeyer) (05/03/88)
I was also told that Borland "officially" denies the existance of Turbo C for the Atari ST. Sonds like a marketing or legal issue to me. -- David Beckemeyer | "To understand ranch lingo all yuh Beckemeyer Development Tools | have to do is to know in advance what 478 Santa Clara Ave, Oakland, CA 94610 | the other feller means an' then pay UUCP: ...!ihnp4!hoptoad!bdt!david | no attention to what he says"
gsender@rmi.UUCP (Gerd Sender) (05/12/88)
In article <310@bdt.UUCP> david@bdt.UUCP (David Beckemeyer) writes:
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: I was also told that Borland "officially" denies the existance of Turbo C
: for the Atari ST. Sonds like a marketing or legal issue to me.
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: David Beckemeyer | "To understand ranch lingo all yuh
Turbo C was shown on the CeBIT Fair at the ATARI booth by Heimsoeth.
Heimsoeth is the distributor of Borland in West Germany etc..
Turbo C is a German development. It is not from Borland, but if
successfull, will be sold by Borland in the USA. Turbo C is not a port,
it is totaly new written and Borland has given some know-how.
--Gerd