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From: davidi@well.sf.ca.us (David Intersimone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer,comp.lang.c++,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.os.os2
Subject: Re: Turbo C++ under OS/2 ??
Summary: Turbo C++ under os/2
Message-ID: <18166@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 26 May 90 22:43:02 GMT
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in message 7820 John Archambeau asks if we will do Turbo C++ for os/2...

at our product announcement on May 14th and for the last 9 months we have
told the world that we are committed to building products (languages and
applications) for DOS, Windows, and OS/2.  Turbo C++ currently supports
developing applications for DOS.  we are working on the support for
other systems.  The issues for development have been that both Windows
and OS/2 have been in transition for the last year or so.

In the windows world everyone was waiting for the 3.0 version.  Now it is
out and we'll support it in a future release.  In the OS/2 world, everyone
is anticipating the 2.0 version that supports 32 bit mode - finally a large
linear address space...  we will support OS/2 also with our languages and
tools.

In fact for windows 3 support - last tuesday at the win3 announcement in
New York and around the country, we demonstrated our Paradox Engine package
as a dynalink library.  that technology has both a traditional C and als
(also) a c++ oop layer to it.  demonstration programs (forms oriented kind of
things) were shown written in an internal version of the Turbo C++ compiler.

So no announcement date, just showing our committment to all the three
Intel chip based platforms.

We have not abandoned OS/2.  It takes time to come out with good products for
each platform.  We did Turbo C++ first for DOS - the rest will come in
future releases.  When they are ready, we will announce and ship those
products like we did Turbo C++ - we announced on May 14th and were shipping
products that day - in fact we gave everyone at the launch a copy of the
product to take home with them.

David Intersimone (better known as David I)
Director, Developer Relations
"Turbo Language Ambassador to the World"
Borland International