Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ucsd!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!pyro!blair From: blair@pyro.ei.dupont.com (Grant Bair) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: Which C compiler: TC or MS? Message-ID: <1990Oct1.125842.1443@pyro.ei.dupont.com> Date: 1 Oct 90 12:58:42 GMT References: <2545@dsacg4.dsac.dla.mil> <1990Sep27.152102.26157@pyro.ei.dupont.com> <7343@darkstar.ucsc.edu> Distribution: usa Organization: DuPont Electronic Imaging Lines: 34 In article <7343@darkstar.ucsc.edu> sidney@saturn.ucsc.edu (Sidney Markowitz ) writes: >In article <1990Sep27.152102.26157@pyro.ei.dupont.com> > blair@pyro.ei.dupont.com (Grant Bair) writes: >>For those who haven't already heard, Borland has started shipping >>alpha versions of its C++ package for MICROSOFT WINDOWS. It'll only be >>a matter of time until windows support is generally available for >>Borland developers. > >To clear things up a bit, Borland has announced nothing more than >their intention to support Windows, with no specific products or >dates. Borland has a "no vaporware" policy that usually means >announcing a product on the day it ships. The Sept 24 article in PC >Week mentioned two products. One of them, Turbo C++ 1.01, it said is >already shipping. It isn't. You can make up your own mind about the >accuracy of the less verifiable statements in the article about >Borland's internal activity on Windows products. PC Leak, er, Weak, >um, I mean WEEK, tends to publish stuff like that. Their track record >on guessing Borland's actions hasn't been all that good. If they don't >include a quote from a Borland spokesperson I would tend to take what >they say with a big grain of salt. > >-- sidney markowitz > [Note: account is about to disappear] >Disclaimer: I work for Borland. I do not speak for Borland. Okay, I'll just pretend that the package that I saw on a colleague's desk wasn't really what it claimed to be.....:-) -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Grant C Blair, DuPont Imaging Systems, Newark, DE 19702, USA | |blair@pyro.ei.dupont.com (192.58.195.64) (302)-733-9533 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+