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From: dc@sci.UUCP (D. C. Sessions)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Turbo Pascal history
Summary: History of UNITs
Message-ID: <933@mgt3.sci.UUCP>
Date: 15 Feb 91 18:58:43 GMT
References: <1991Feb6.001222.15320@IRO.UMontreal.CA> <27710002@hpldsla.sid.hp.com> <1991Feb11.084634.21730@resam.dk>
Reply-To: dc@mgt3.sci.com (D. C. Sessions)
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In article <1991Feb11.084634.21730@resam.dk> andrew@resam.dk (Leif Andrew Rump) writes:
>Development on PP stopped when TP4 was introduced. I think Anders was
>brought to the states at that time and he (I don't know if he is the
>one that should receive the credits?!?) introduced the lovely unit
>idea and removed all the bugs from TP - Thanks!
>
>Leif Andrew

'Fraid not.  UNITS were an integral part of UCSD Pascal back in the '70s.
A feature that TP still hasn't adapted is the SEGMENT UNIT, which
provides completely integrated swapping.  As it happens, the 80x86 
environment (esp. in protected mode) is so well suited to this approach
that I still don't see why Borland hasn't added it *en passant*.
-- 
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+-=-=-    (I wish this _was_ original!)        D. C. Sessions          -=-=-+