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From: ebergman@isis.cs.du.edu (Eric Bergman-Terrell)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: TP for Windows
Message-ID: <1991Feb14.030240.11601@isis.cs.du.edu>
Date: 14 Feb 91 03:02:40 GMT
Reply-To: ebergman@isis.UUCP (Eric Bergman-Terrell)
Organization: Nyx -- Public access Unix, U. of Denver, dept. of Math/CS
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I called the Borland language support folks today for some information about
TP 6.0, which I use now, and TP for Windows, which I'm interested in.  Here's
what they said:

1.	When I asked them why the software floating point (not the 8x87
	emulation) was significantly faster, they said that the old libraries
	hadn't been changed much from their 8080 days.  The libraries
	were modified to exploit the 8x86 cpu family.

2.	I asked them how TP programs will interact with Windows.  They
	said that there would be a class library similar to TurboVision
	that could be used, as well as the basic Windows routines.

	Personally I'd prefer using the ordinary Windows entry points -
	then the knowledge could be used for Windows development using
	another vendor's compiler.

3.	I asked about a release date.  They didn't have one.  They said
	that testing was taking longer than they expected (for software
	of that complexity I wasn't surprised).

Anyway take the above (at least 2 & 3) with a grain of salt.  Until it's
released, you never know...


Terrell