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From: joel@gould9.UUCP (Joel West)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Borland committment to Mac
Message-ID: <841@gould9.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 27-Oct-86 20:46:26 EST
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Posted: Mon Oct 27 20:46:26 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 28-Oct-86 06:48:08 EST
Organization: Western Software Technology, Vista, CA
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Keywords: vs. IBM-PC, T

There have been some disparaging comments made about the accuracy of
InfoWorld recently, but their Oct. 27 issue offers some interesting
observations about Borland and the Macintosh.  The material seems to be a 
reliable indication of Borland's views, since it is a paid advertisement.

I quote without apologies:

    IF ANYTHING HAPPENED WITH OPERATING SYSTEMS IN 1986, IT'S STILL A SECRET
	Except for some bug fixes and rumors of minicomputer type 
	operating systems (to be announced "real soon now") nothing 
	is really new.  The world now knows that to try to make a PC 
	behave half as well as a Mac, you'll need an 80386, an EGA, 
	and a lot of patience.

And then, in the "real soon now" category:

    BORLAND PRODUCTS
	For the Apple Macintosh
	    Turbo Pascal (avail. Nov. 15)		$99.95

This make about 11 months for Turbo Pascal in the rsn category.  If
this version is not a beta, it will beat Apple's Pascal, though.
I also recall seeing an ad which indicates that Mac-Turbo-Pascal,
unlike the PC version, supports units and separate compilation.
-- 
	Joel West			     MCI Mail: 282-8879
	Western Software Technology, POB 2733, Vista, CA  92083
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