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From: kirchner@informatik.uni-kl.de (Reinhard Kirchner)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Turbo Pascal for UNIX platforms?
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Date: 19 Jun 91 07:43:13 GMT
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>From article <1983@svin02.info.win.tue.nl>, by rcronh@svin01.win.tue.nl (Ron Helwig):
> 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? 
> Are there any reasons why they wouldn't consider this?

The Turbo languages are not 'standard', but contain LOTs of DOS specific and
even Intel 80x86 specific extensions ( link int-calls with registers ).
So you can NOT expect a Turbo program to run on any other processor or
even on a intel unix machine. It may run if it only uses the standard
subset of the language, but it is nearly impossible to write a nontrivial
program on a pc without using these extensions ( think about 64k limitations )

Reinhard Kirchner
Univ. Kaiserslautern, Germany
kirchner@uklirb.informatik.uni-kl.de