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Subject: pascal
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Date: Wed, 30-Jan-85 09:26:00 EST
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From: Henry.Kautz@rochester.arpa

>  Postscript: after the meeting and press conference that followed, I drove
>  over to Scotts Valley to visit Philippe Kahn at Borland Int'l (the
>  TURBO Pascal people).  As many of you may know, Commodore has announced
>  that TURBO Pascal will be the bundled language with their Macalike, the
>  Amiga.  I have also heard persistent rumors that Borland is doing the
>  OS for the Amiga as well.  As usual, I pumped Philippe for info about
>  the Amiga, and, as usual, he deftly fended off most of my questions
>  (the people at Commodore should be pleased with his sealed lips).  He
>  did mention a few things about the machine--the OS directly supports
>  up to 7MB of RAM, and the thing has slots (yippee!)--but his main
>  comment was that even if he did tell me all about it, I wouldn't believe
>  him; that the machine has everything I could ever want in it; and that
>  it would blow the Mac away.  'Twill be interesting to see what acutally
>  hits the shelves, and when.

But is Borland working on turbo pascal for the Mac, too???  There was a
blurb printed in INFOWORLD last year to the effect that Borland wasn't
going to do Turbo for the mac, because of lack of cooperation from
Apple.   True or not?
---- Henry Kautz
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