Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!vsi1!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Okay, you Amiga Types, its time to bash your amiga. :) Message-ID: <1991Feb3.004152.1848@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 3 Feb 91 00:41:52 GMT References: <91031.190832JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu> <91031.215406WTW101@psuvm.psu.edu> <1991Feb1.075919.617@Neon.Stanford.EDU> Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 24 torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan J Torrie) writes: > WTW101@psuvm.psu.edu (Bill Warner) writes: >> Yea, and the ONLY reason I have an AT bridgecard with a dedicated >> hard drive and a VGA card is so I can run Turbo C, Pascal, Debugger, >> etc. Nothing on the Amiga even comes close. These programs make >> writing and debugging a breeze. I write and debug a program on the >> IBM side then send it over to the Amiga. As soon as Turbo stuff comes >> out on the Amiga I can sell the bridgeboard and buy a 3500! > Well, didn't Borland advertise Turbo Pascal for the Amiga back in 86? > It must be due RSN, mustn't it? :-))) It may not be quite fair to take Borland to task on this one. I'm not sure the real story on this will ever come out, but the rumor at the time was that Borland had created a beta Turbo Pascal, and Commodore violated a non-disclosure agreement by handing the fully functional beta around to dealers, earning Borland's eternal distrust and prompt cancellation of the product development effort. Anybody care to tell the real story? Kent, the man from xanth.