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From: madd@world.std.com (jim frost)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Borland International
Message-ID: <1989Oct24.163339.21188@world.std.com>
Date: 24 Oct 89 16:33:39 GMT
References: <AZEdI9u00VoH4TnkUp@andrew.cmu.edu> <4280@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> <6212@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM>
Reply-To: madd@world.UUCP (jim frost)
Organization: Software Tool & Die
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In article <6212@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM> toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy) writes:
|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.
|
|I'm certain that a contributing factor to his success was the large loyal
|CP/M Turbo Pascal users [...]

Yes, I imagine that it was.  I purchased TP under MS-DOS because the
product was excellent on my CP/M machine, not because it was cheap.  I
was not disappointed in the MS-DOS version, either, although it did
take some time before Borland added support for MS-DOSisms.

jim frost
software tool & die
madd@std.com