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From: lins@Apple.COM (Chuck Lins)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Suggestion for TP on Other Computers
Summary: TP, Macintosh, Sun
Message-ID: <36445@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 13 Nov 89 23:26:59 GMT
References: <6354@merlin.usc.edu> <9686@vax1.cc.lehigh.edu> <804@maytag.waterloo.edu> <6422@merlin.usc.edu>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <6422@merlin.usc.edu> ajayshah@aludra.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) writes:
>>In article <9686@vax1.cc.lehigh.edu> LUKRW@vax1.cc.lehigh.edu writes:
>The most important single aspect where i might have differed from
>Borland is that i'd have taken more trouble to create TP
>implementations for a coupla other standard machines (Sun, Mac, etc.).
>That way, a user has more portability.  I've often got stranded when
Actually, Borland did move TP to the Mac. Big-time flop. Apple's MPW Object
Pascal and Symantec's THINK Pascal essentially have a lock on the market
(though a small share goes to TML Pascal).

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