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From: malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: Borland Turbo C++ 1.0!
Message-ID: <7624@skinner.nprdc.arpa>
Date: 25 May 90 20:46:28 GMT
References: <4693@pegasus.ATT.COM> <306@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> <4776@pegasus.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy)
Organization: Navy Personnel R&D Center, San Diego
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In article <4776@pegasus.ATT.COM> psrc@pegasus.ATT.COM (Paul S. R. Chisholm) writes:
>In article <306@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>, ckindel@cs.arizona.edu (Charles E. Kindel, Jr. [Tigger]) writes:
>> The press release doesn't mention Windows support!  It was my understanding
>> that Turbo C++ would provide this.  Is it an oversight in the PR or are
>> we Windows programmers still being ignored by Borland.
>
>Nope, Turbo C++ 1.0 and Turbo C 2.0 still don't support MS Windows.
>I haven't heard anything official (or unofficial) from Borland, but
>they've made general statements that they're moving toward Windows
>compatibility.

PC Week indicates that there is a version of TC++ in-house that has
Windows support; no dates for release are available yet -- it's
probably not even to beta.


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