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From: BUDDENBERGRA@USC-ISI.ARPA (Rex Buddenberg)
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Subject: Modula II (Turbo)
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Date: Tue, 30-Jul-85 13:00:19 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 30 13:00:19 1985
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                  TURBO-MODULA-II IS NEARLY HERE

     For those of you who wanted a large-program, modern,

structured language in a usable implementation, for REAL

computers (Z80 types, 8088's need not apply), there is hope.

Allow me to present the evidence.

     This past weekend, I had the priviledge of attending SOG-IV,

Dave Thompson's (MicroCornucopia) annual picnic and computerists

whing-ding.  Philippe Kahn didn't make it this year, but sent

Mike Weisert, one of Borland's programmers instead.  Mike's topic

was "Intro to Modula-II & the Borland Implementation".  After

comparing and contrasting Pascal and Modula for a while, he got

to the important points:  how Borland was building the compiler.

Selected tidbits (those that my brain retained):

     -  The compiler actually exists.  Mike had a Kaypro with the

compiler up and running.  The top menu looks (strangely) like the

Turbo-Pascal menu.  The editor is the same too.  Borland is

adhering to the Rev-3 Modula specification.

     -  Because Modula has separate compilation as part of the

compiler specification rather than part of the implementation,

the compiler compiles to disk.  Sorry, no in-RAM compilation.

The top menu also directly  calls  the  linker.
   The  demo  program  used  some
familiar modules adapted from the Turbo-tools

ACCESS.BOX package, so I expect to see them available too.

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  Dates weren't

mentioned, but the product demo was real enough to convince me

that this wasn't vapor.

The CPM version was the one shown.  The MS-DOS version is not

nearly as far along and Mike offered no prognostication regarding

its availability.  8088 owners...suffer!  Mike wouldn't quote a

specific price, but said "under $100".
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