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From: gary@dvnspc1.Dev.Unisys.COM (Gary Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Borland International
Keywords: Phillipe exists!
Message-ID: <842@dvnspc1.Dev.Unisys.COM>
Date: 27 Oct 89 14:39:14 GMT
Organization: Unisys Corporation, Devon, PA
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Alex White writes:

> Their C compiler (Turbo C) was bought from Wizard.
> I know, I owned Wizard C, and owned a support contract, and one day
> when phoning their support line was given an answering machine forwarding
> me to Borland (who gave all owners of Wizard C a free copy of Turbo C)
> (but refused to honour the support contract with wizard).

Very sorry to hear that, because Wizard produced a vary fine product,
one that repeatedly got great technical reviews but not a lot of press.  That
Borland purchased it was a great coup for Kahn.  Too bad you were
apparently treated unfairly.

By the way, my company (UNISYS) offered Wizard C on its proprietary
"BTOS" workstation.  After Wizard's sale of C to Borland, BTOS C
became a Borland product.  So now BTOS users see a BORLAND banner
on their screen at program startup.  (Too bad Borland has not
enhanced BTOS C to match Turbo C (PC) capabilities.)  


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