Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!gatech!ncsuvx!shumv1!unkydave From: unkydave@shumv1.uucp (David Bank) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Borland International Message-ID: <4280@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> Date: 23 Oct 89 06:35:10 GMT References: Sender: news@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu Reply-To: unkydave@shumv1.ncsu.edu (David Bank) Organization: NCSU Computing Center Lines: 32 In article hp0p+@andrew.cmu.edu (Hokkun Pang) writes: >I've been a happy Borland user for a long time now. I have TP 3, 4, 5, 5.5. >TC 2, TA 1, TD 1, Quattro, SideKnick Plus, Eureka, and have used others as >well. So naturally, it's nice to know who are the people that made all these >possible. Who founded Borland and who're the cheif architects of these >products? Anyone know? Also, I wonder if Borland will publish something on >the history of Turbo Pascal, just like Bill Gates did on MSDOS? (after all, >TP is probably is second most owned PC software, next to MSDOS) Borland was founded around 1983 (or maybe it was 1982) by Phillipe Kahn (I think that's how you spell him name) who was, at the time, an illigal immigrant from France. The exact exigencies and situations behind the founding of Borland are not known to me. I DO know that the company is named after former Eastern Airlines CEO Frank Borman. Mr. Kahn is reputed to have taken a liking to the name and modified it slightly for his company name. Borland's biggest success was not in producing the absolute best Pascal compiler on the market, but in producing one of the fastest and one of the best FOR THE MONEY. It was also one of the first PC development tools to offer an INTEGRATED development environment, which did not require a seperate text editor for the generation of source. I doubt TP is as popular as you make it out to be (and I say that having registered copies of versions 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, and 5.0) but there is NO mistaking that TP and its successors changed the face of PC development and PC language environments. Unky Dave unkydave@shumv1.ncsu.edu