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From: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Borland International
Keywords: Phillipe exists!
Message-ID: <6241@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM>
Date: 27 Oct 89 14:22:49 GMT
References: <1246@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <AZEdI9u00VoH4TnkUp@andrew.cmu.edu> <751@awdprime.UUCP> <1989Oct26.150041.5247@world.std.com>
Reply-To: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
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In article <1989Oct26.150041.5247@world.std.com> madd@world.UUCP (jim frost) writes:
>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).

Ironically, they wrote SideKick as an in-house tool, and then commercialized
it. But I thought most of their products they developed. Their product line
(I hope I'm not leaving anything out):

Product				Did they do it?
Sidekick			Yes (and follow up products too)
Turbo Lightning			Yes
Superkey			Yes
Reflex				No
Paradox				No
Quattro				Yes
Sprint				No

And they did all their languages (Pascal, Prolog, Basic, Assembler) except 
for Turbo-C, and also developed (but didn't sell) Turbo Modula-2 (for CP/M),
and what is now JPI TopSpeed Modula-2 and C.

If I'm wrong on any of this, I'd like to know (and I'm sure someone will 
tell me!)

Tom Almy
toma@tekgvs.labs.tek.com
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