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From: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Borland International
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Date: 23 Oct 89 14:38:05 GMT
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In article <4280@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> unkydave@shumv1.ncsu.edu (David Bank) writes:

>    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'm certain that a contributing factor to his success was the large loyal
CP/M Turbo Pascal users that, after moveing to the MSDOS world, had a cozy
feeling using Borland products. In the CP/M world, Turbo Pascal 1) had the
only integrated environment available 2) was the fastest compiler available,
by far 3) produced terrific code 4) had an editor so good that people used it
as their primary editor, even for non TP programming 5) was priced right at
$29, far less than any reliable competition 6) was available in *any* CP/M
disk format, without surcharge for unusual formats.

Tom Almy
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