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From: dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu (Duncan Murdoch)
Subject: Re: Turbo Pascal for UNIX platforms?
Message-ID: <1991Jun13.150926.13154@maytag.waterloo.edu>
Keywords: turbo pascal, UNIX
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Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1991 15:09:26 GMT
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In article <1983@svin02.info.win.tue.nl> rcronh@win.tue.nl writes:
>Hi netters,
>
>does anyone know wether Borland is considering to port their Turbo Pascal
>(and/or Basic, C, C++ etc.) products to the UNIX-workstation (SUN, DEC,
>HP, IBM) environment? 

As far as I know, there haven't been any announcements of anything like 
that.  TP, C and C++ have been ported to Windows under DOS, and they've
announced plans to port C++ (and possibly other languages) to OS/2 version
2.0, but so far nothing about Unix.

>Are there any reasons why they wouldn't consider this?

I can think of lots of reasons.  The main one is that the market for Unix
software is completely different from the market for DOS software, and
Borland only knows about DOS now.  For one thing, it's much smaller.  For
another, it's much more diverse.  

Duncan Murdoch
dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu