Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!udel!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!o.gp.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!hp0p+ From: hp0p+@andrew.cmu.edu (Hokkun Pang) Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal Subject: Re: MS Pascal vs. Turbo Message-ID: Date: 30 Nov 90 10:40:49 GMT Organization: Class of '92, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 14 >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. I still keep it because I have the 50M of free space on my hard drive. Sooner or later, I will definitely wipefile c:\windows\*.* /s. (unless Borland wants to take over the development of Winodws 4.0 :-> ). On the other hand, DOS's 640K limit is really a problem. If it doesn't exist, we probably will have a lot more goodies such as Common Lisp by now.