[comp.lang.eiffel] Eiffel on MS-DOS

darcyh@eiffel.UUCP (Darcy Harrison) (07/27/90)

Extracts from a recent press release:

	INTERACTIVE AND TARVYDAS-SANFORD CONTROLS, INC.

	ANNOUNCE AGREEMENT FOR PORTING EIFFEL 

	ON MS-DOS OPERATING SYSTEM


SANTA BARBARA, CA - JULY 26, 1990
Interactive Software Engineering announced today that it has
signed a formal agreement with Tarvydas-Sanford Controls, Inc.
of Toronto, Ontario, Canada for porting its implementation
of Eiffel to the MS-DOS operating system.

(...)

``Eiffel is clearly the best object-oriented programming
language with large emphasis geared toward software
engineering,'' said Paul Tarvydas,
president of Tarvydas-Sanford Controls, a consulting firm
specializing in compilers and real-time system design.
``We are excited about bringing
quality software engineering techniques and the
productivity of object-oriented programming to the
MS-DOS world.''

According to Bertrand Meyer, president of Interactive,
``The most frequently asked question about Eiffel is:
`When is Eiffel going to be available on MS-DOS?'
Paul Tarvydas and his colleagues are experts
in Eiffel technology, and we are thrilled that they will
be the ones bringing Eiffel to the DOS world.
Together with the ongoing ports to VMS and MacOS,
and the constant enhancement of the current
Unix implementations, this development will be a key step in
making Eiffel available on the major computing platforms''.

(...)

Tarvydas-Sanford Controls is planning to provide a
Windows 3 class library with the MS-DOS product.

(Rest of press release omitted.)
-- 
-- Darcy Harrison
darcyh@eiffel.com

tma@m5.COM (Tim Atkins) (08/02/90)

It is certainly good news that Eiffel is being ported to the Mac and MS-DOS.
However I am slightly confused since I've seen claims in this newsgroup for
quite a long time that third party ports to these platforms were underway.
The new posts seem to imply that this process is only now starting when I had
hoped to see an annoucement of a successful implementation any day now.

noren@dinl.uucp (Charles Noren) (08/03/90)

Eiffel on MS-DOS!
Any word on approximate release date and cost?
I'm starting to save my extra change in my
piggy-bank now.
Will it run on PC/XT compatables?

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