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From: ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah)
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Subject: Re: Turbo 6.0
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Date: 9 Nov 90 05:06:53 GMT
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In article <1990Nov8.234636.16175@cc.ic.ac.uk> ace@cc.ic.ac.uk (Andriko del Saludo) writes:
>
> Well, guys an' gals today it got released here in the UK, and BORLAND
> threw a big bash to present it. It looks really good, especially the
> IDE and the Turbo Vision environment. 
What is Turbo Vision??

> seems pretty good on a Toshiba laptop (386 presumably). The biggest
> surprise, however, was a sneak preview of !!!!YOU GUESSED IT!!! TP for
> windows. It is a full Windows 3 app and generates nice windows code.
Wait a minute: does this mean that to use Turbo Pascal 7.0, I
have no option but to run Windows?  IMHO that would be a terrible
decision!  There are supposed to be 30e6 to 40e6 PCs out there,
with 1e6 or so Windows machines.  Further, more end-users are
attracted to Windows as compared with hobbyist-programmers who
make up a good fraction of Borland's audience in buying $100-$200
compilers.

(You guessed it, I bought Windows 3 and rm -rf'ed it!)


But seriously: what are the changes in Turbo 6.0 other than a
prettier frontend?  Is there any reason for a tpc 5.5 user to buy
6.0??  "Real" reasons like optional compiler_speed-optimisation
tradeoffs?  Turbo Pascal with units is now fast enough for
compile speed to be irrelevant for 90% of programmers so what
else is there to push?

Maybe ports to Hardware for Men like SPARC maybe?

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Ajay Shah, (213)734-3930, ajayshah@usc.edu
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