Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!convex!iex!ntvax!ntvaxb!jl04 From: jl04@vaxb.acs.unt.edu (James Hague) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Borland International Message-ID: <12233.254620e6@vaxb.acs.unt.edu> Date: 25 Oct 89 21:08:54 GMT References: Lines: 19 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's products are great, but for the most part they weren't created by Borland. Borland is more of a software aquistion house that keeps updating aquired products, than a company that develops new software. Of course, they try to keep this quiet, but a lot of info leaks out anyway. For instance, it's widely known that Turbo C was originally Wizard C (take a look at some circa-1985 Byte C Compiler comparisons). Even if it wasn't originally created by Borland, it's still a great piece of programming. Ditto for their other products. James "The Junkster" Hague, University of North Texas