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From: zech@leadsv.UUCP (Bill Zech)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Borland International
Summary: Borland's Ancestry
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Date: 24 Oct 89 02:03:57 GMT
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In article <AZEdI9u00VoH4TnkUp@andrew.cmu.edu>, 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)

Actually, lots of Borland stuff was developed elsewhere, either in 
Europe or in the US.  I think TP came from Switzerland, TC used to
be Wizzard C,  Reflex came from Analytica, Paradox from Ansa, Sprint
from someone else (?).

Basically, Borland buys a lot of good stuff and then improves on it.

-Bill