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From: ebergman@isis.cs.du.edu (Eric Bergman-Terrell)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Questions/Observations about TP v. 6.0
Message-ID: <1991Jan20.152128.21994@isis.cs.du.edu>
Date: 20 Jan 91 15:21:28 GMT
Reply-To: ebergman@isis.UUCP (Eric Bergman-Terrell)
Organization: Math/CS, University of Denver
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I just upgraded from Turbo Pascal 5.0 to 6.0 had have some questions:

1.	Software Floating Point:  

	It looks like they've made rather dramatic improvements with
	software floating point.  My astronomy program, which relies
	heavily on floating point, runs about 40% faster when software
	floating point is used.  Has anyone noticed similar speedups?

2.	Turbo Vision:

	Turbo Vision is supposed to allow you to have hints associated
	with submenus that appear in the status line.  For example, when
	you're running the Turbo Pascal Integrated Development
	Environment, if you hold down the left mouse button and scan
	down the submenus, brief "hints" will appear in the status line for
	each submenu.

	The manual makes brief mention of this, but unfortunately I could
	not find an example in the manual or in the demo source directories.

	Does anyone have an example of submenus with "hints"?

3.	Turbo Pascal for Windows:

	Turbo Pascal for Windows is supposed to be out in the first quarter
	of this year.  Has anyone heard if Borland is going to make
	Turbo Vision "talk to" Windows 3.0?  If I knew that Turbo Vision
	applications could become Windows 3.0 applications by changing
	a compilation option, I suppose that it would make the investment
	in learning Turbo Vision worthwhile...


Thanks in advance,


Eric Bergman-Terrell