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From: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Okay, you Amiga Types, its time to bash your amiga. :)
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Date: 4 Feb 91 17:45:53 GMT
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Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel)
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In article <1991Feb3.004152.1848@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
>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?

I'm positive that the above story is not true.
You can be sure, too, by this simple test:

1)  Have you, or anyone you know actually SEEN one of those
    fully functional beta TP disks ?

    If it did exist, and was spread around, why isn't it everywhere
    by now ?

    Did all the pirates somehow miss this one ?  Even in the face
    of strong demand ?

Using the famous razor, we can conclude that such a disk
never existed.


If I were in a speculating mood, I'd guess that Borland looked
at the effort involved, its many other products under development
at that time, and how much money there was in the IBM arena, and
made a business decision.

>Kent, the man from xanth.

			andy
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