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From: iav1917@ritcv.UUCP (alan i. vymetalik)
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Subject: Turbo Pascal - The Next Version!  What? How much? When?
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Date: Tue, 3-Jun-86 02:36:37 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun  3 02:36:37 1986
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["Oh, give me a home where the line eaters roam!]

   Here's a question to all you "insiders" out there in netland:

   I am interested in finding out any information anyone knows
   regarding the upcoming release of Borland's Turbo Pascal V4.0.
   I recently wrote to the Technical Support people at Borland
   officially through my software/consulting company: AVSD, Ltd.
   Unfortunately, either the mail has been lost or the folks at
   Borland are busier than Santa's Elves for I have not received
   any kind of reply (yet). I am going to write them again soon but 
   I thought I'd increase my chances by asking out on the net.

   I am looking for information regarding the new version's possible
   capabilities, such as large-memory (>64K) addressing for both
   data and code, possible optimization option for the compiler,
   linkable .OBJ code generation similar to Turbo Prolog, handling
   of extremely large disk files (>= 16M), and other related topics.
   In other words, is Borland going to turn Turbo Pascal into a
   full-blown Pascal compiler?  I think they've proven the speed
   so let's see the capabilities!  Also, when are they going to
   release it?

   I am looking for this information due to the need of developing
   several large systems and software packages that excede the
   current capabilities of Turbo Pascal.  I also need to modify
   and change current software to adapt to the larger resource
   requirements.  I happen to personally like Turbo Pascal and its
   capabilities and would prefer not to have to rewrite everything
   I've already done.  If Version 4.0 will not be supporting at 
   least the larger memory feature, I will be forced to proceed
   with development under "C" (a good choice) or, possibly, FORTRAN
   (arrg!).

   As always, thanks are appreciated in advance,

   Alan

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