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From: Lawson.English@p88.f15.n300.z1.fidonet.org (Lawson English)
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Subject: Re: Turbo Pascal (was Re: Graf 3D)
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Date: 9 Jan 91 15:46:34 GMT
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P. Hawthorne writes in a message to All

PH> Now, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but this is the way 
PH> I heard it. Borland stomped the competition in the PC world by 
PH> selling their products for practically nothing. Like, $200. So, 
PH> they figure on doing the same thing for the Mac. Only, Think 
PH> is ready for them, and gets protective. 
PH> Think tells Borland, "Look, neither of us is getting enough margin 
PH> per product now. What if, down the line, it becomes a choice 
PH> between your products and ours during a bloody price war, heaven 
PH> forbid?" 

Remember HyperC? Several years ago (at least two or three), HyperC was presented
to Borland as a possible Turbo C on the Mac. Afterall, it produces the tightest
code of any Mac compiler (except maybe GCC which didn't exist back then on the
Mac). Borland returned it with the comment "Not as nice as Think C."

Obviously the handwriting was on the wall even back then.

Lawson
 

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