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From: gjb@unirot.UUCP (Greg Brail)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac,net.lang.pascal
Subject: Borland Announces Turbo PRMascal for the Mac
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Date: Tue, 28-Jan-86 22:53:53 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 28 22:53:53 1986
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Organization: The Soup Kitchen, Piscataway NJ
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	From the pages of the Jan. 27, 1986 InfoWorld, buried on
p.15, under the headline, "Borland Has Reflex-Type AI Product:"

"At the Macworld and Apple II World Exposition, Borland announced two
language products, Turbo Pascal for the Macintosh  and Turbo Modula-2
for CP/M environments, as a well as a $99.95 combination package that
bundles Sidekick for the Macintosh with  Phonelink.   

"Phonelink is  a  hardware accessory  that enables  Sidekick users to
dial out without the use of the modem while simultaneously working on
another application.

"Turbo Pascal  for the  Macintosh is  the second  program Borland has
released for that machine.  According to Kahn, three programmers were
involved in the year-long development of that product.  The Macintosh
version, like the original Turbo Pascal for IBM  PCs and compatibles,
expedites the Pascal programming  process.   [in other  words, it's a
Pascal compiler - gjb]

"The release  of  Turbo  Pascal   reflects  our   commitment  to  the
Macintosh," said [President Phillipe] Kahn.

The rest of this stuff sounds neat, but the Turbo Pascal  for the Mac
is what I'm really interested in.  However, this was  all buried five
paragraphs beneath a  different headline.   It  seems to  me that the
release of a Pascal compiler the the Mac from  the maker  of the most
popular Pascal compiler around (I think) would be  fairly major news,
considering it has been rumored for  about a  year now.   
	Anyway, how about some questions:  
	Does it  really exist,  or is  it coming "Real Soon Now?"  
	Is it as fast (or faster) that IBM Turbo?  
	Is  it as good a compiler as the TML compiler?

	We'll see.
				-Greg


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