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From: ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah)
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Subject: Re: MS Pascal vs. Turbo
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Date: 30 Nov 90 05:22:37 GMT
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In article <1990Nov29.172808.810@spcvxb.spc.edu> siegfried_r@spcvxb.spc.edu writes:
>In article <6302@vice.ICO.TEK.COM>, bobb@vice.ICO.TEK.COM (Bob Beauchaine)
> writes:
>>   Summary:  Unless your programs tend to consist of writeln('Hello, world');
>>   don't bother with Quick Pascal.  In the end, you'll be glad you didn't.
>
>quite well, but my experience makes me question the overall quality of their 
>products, especially given their most famous kludge, OS/2.
>
>	If only Borland would develop Turbo DOS and Turbo FORTRAN.  Then I 
>could ditch Microsoft(tm) altogether.

I lend my support to this healthy strain of microsoft-bashing!
The world might have been a different place if IBM had asked
Borland to do an OS for PS/2, eh??

I'm really petrified at the thought of being locked out of Turbo
Pascal 7+ if Borland makes it Windows-only.  I actually paid for
Windows and then rm -rf'ed it.

(BTW, I boot my box with MKS Toolkit, a product I wholeheartedly
endorse.  For all MS-DOS haters with nowhere to go because you
couldn't stomach windows, this is the place)

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Ajay Shah, (213)734-3930, ajayshah@usc.edu
                              The more things change, the more they stay insane.
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