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From: madd@world.std.com (jim frost)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Borland International
Keywords: Phillipe exists!
Message-ID: <1989Oct26.150041.5247@world.std.com>
Date: 26 Oct 89 15:00:41 GMT
References: <1246@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <AZEdI9u00VoH4TnkUp@andrew.cmu.edu> <751@awdprime.UUCP>
Reply-To: madd@world.UUCP (jim frost)
Organization: Software Tool & Die
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In article <751@awdprime.UUCP> ron@woan.austin.ibm.com (Ronald S. Woan) writes:
|and give the Borland programmers
|some credit...  True they have bought some thing, but I am quite sure that
|all of the compilers are their own.

No.  Turbo C, at least, was originally Wizard C.  It was purchased by
Borland which streamlined it (basically using memory in place of
temporary files wherever possible) and added the now-familiar
integrated environment.

Most of the other Borland commercial packages were also bought and
improved, rather than completely implemented by Borland.  I believe
only SideKick was a Borland original in this category (SideKick made
their name in the commercial world, so this is no small statement).

I'm not putting down Borland -- I've been using Turbo Pascal since the
CP/M days -- but they will definitely buy good or fairly good products
and improve them.  This makes good business sense and leads to better
products in short time periods.

jim frost
software tool & die
madd@std.com