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From: steve@basser.oz (Stephen Russell)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: TP and Standards
Message-ID: <2655@basser.oz>
Date: 17 Oct 89 15:00:53 GMT
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Organization: Dept of Comp Sci, Uni of Sydney, Australia
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In article <89289.090606DN5@PSUVM.BITNET> DN5@PSUVM.BITNET writes:
>
>Parden me, but I haven't heard that Microsoft endorsed any of TPs
>extensions.  Would some kind soul please enlighten me as to which
>of Turbo's extentions have been endorsed by Microsoft.
>

Ref: BYTE, Aug 1989, pp 19. A Microsoft ad for QuickPascal says

	"Naturally, our Pascal is also fully source compatible
	with Turbo Pascal".

This is close to an endorsement? I found it amusing to find Microsoft
having to make this claim.

I actually question whether it is true. The reviews I have seen
comparing the OOP extensions for QP and TP say they are different in
several areas. So, is Microsoft claiming compatibility with an earlier
TP (say 4.0)?