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From: dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu (Duncan Murdoch)
Subject: Re: TP under Windows 3.0
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In article <1990Dec20.190116.18951@watmath.waterloo.edu> nmouawad@watmath.waterloo.edu (Naji Mouawad) writes:
>
>While not a fan of Windows (I prefer DesqView), I am glad to 
>learn that TP will run under Windows.
>
>I hope that (a) Windows will not be the only OTHER environment
>under which TP will run, that is I would like to see a version
>of TP under SunTools, Xwindows, OpenLook and Next (I boycott Apple)
>and (b) that a program written with Turbo Vision will run
>without modofication under any one of these platforms (modulo
>assembly code).

While I'd like to see that too, I think the chances of Borland ever porting
TP to *any* Unix environment are just about nil.  There just wouldn't be
enough market for it to be worthwhile - C has too much of a stranglehold 
on a market that's small to start with.  

Duncan Murdoch
dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu