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From: gaz@boulder.Colorado.EDU (GAZ RANDALL LOUIS)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: TeePee for OS2
Message-ID: <11974@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Date: 22 Sep 89 19:10:43 GMT
References: <1490003@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com> <18698@ut-emx.UUCP>
Reply-To: gaz@boulder.Colorado.EDU (GAZ RANDALL LOUIS)
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In article <18698@ut-emx.UUCP> boerner@emx.UUCP (Brendan B. Boerner) writes:
>In article <1490003@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com> nacer@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com (Abdenacer Moussaoui) writes:
>>
>>Does anybody know when borland is planning to release a TP for OS2,
>>like everybody we would like to port our tools to this new environment
>>with little effort as possible? (re-compile)
>>
>>Does MS pascal (4.0) support OS2?
>>
>>Thank you.
>
>According to a recent PC Week article, Borland has decided to put Turbo
>language products for OS/2 on the shelf for awhile and concentrate on
>Windows products.  According to Borland, they ran some surveys and
>concluded that the buyers of their language products didn't place a
>high priority on OS/2 versions.

The reason that Borland ( and other developers ) are not working on
OS/2 products is because there is no market (yet).

Windows is outselling OS/2 by a very wide margin, so there is MONEY involved
with Windows, but not OS/2.

The only market segment that OS/2 is doing well in is with developers, because
it has memory protection features for debugging those pesky pointer bugs.

I am not flaming OS/2, in fact I will get a copy when I get a 386, but there
is no one with money who wants it right now.

Randall Gaz