magid@sandstorm.Berkeley.EDU (Paul Magid) (10/23/90)
I understand that TP 6.0 is well into its beta testing stage by now. Does anyone know for sure whether one can write windows 3 programs with it? What is new? When will it be released? Will Borland force TP5.5 owners to fork out a fortune for the upgrade? Any info will be appreciated. Paul
dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu (Duncan Murdoch) (10/23/90)
In article <1990Oct23.013846.22798@agate.berkeley.edu> magid@sandstorm.Berkeley.EDU (Paul Magid) writes: > > I understand that TP 6.0 is well into its beta testing stage by now. >Does anyone know for sure whether one can write windows 3 programs with it? >What is new? When will it be released? Will Borland force TP5.5 owners to >fork out a fortune for the upgrade? Any info will be appreciated. There have been lots of rumours in PC Week and Infoworld, all but one of which haven't been confirmed by Borland. Here's the list from memory: - No windows support - Changes to OOP extensions: some reserved words are no longer reserved, private data and methods are supported - Compiler switch to generate 80286 code (not 386, and not protected mode, as far as I've heard) - Something called TurboVision, which is some sort of forms generator or something - A new IDE like the TC++ one - Release date November 5. This was confirmed to me by Borland tech support. I've probably missed one or two rumours, but there's not long to wait anyways. Duncan Murdoch