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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Doubts on TP 6.0 updatating being worth the while
Message-ID: <1991Jan10.063046.9686@uwasa.fi>
Date: 10 Jan 91 06:30:46 GMT
References: <19416@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1991Jan9.194840.18614@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
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In article <1991Jan9.194840.18614@en.ecn.purdue.edu> newlin@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Captain Kludge) writes:
:
>   One issue that hasn't been mentioned is the fact that Borland has
>   a beta version of Turbo Pascal for windows.  And in all probability
>   the windows version will compile Turbo Vision code and produce
>   a windows program. Or a Windows program with a stub that is the
>   text mode version.  I think Turbo Vision conforms to some standard
>   like SAA or something.
>
>   So I guess what I'm trying to say, is that if you are serious about
>   any kind of development for windows then you should learn Turbo
>   Vision now and it will make life a lot easier later.  Also after
:

Fair enough.  And what this also means is that 6.0 should be after
all be considered an just intermediate version and we can expect in
line the 5th upgrade with incompatible units.  Why didn't they make
it Windows right away.  Borland's upgrading tactics is beginning to
raise some aggravation, even for a TP fan, isn't it?

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