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From: marti@ethz.UUCP (Robert Marti)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: Turbo Modula-2
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Date: Thu, 20-Nov-86 09:07:55 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 20 09:07:55 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 21-Nov-86 21:40:28 EST
Reply-To: marti@ethz.UUCP (Robert Marti)
Organization: CS Department, ETH Zuerich, Switzerland
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> > Would anyone know if and when BORLAND is planning to come out with
> > TURBO MODULA2 for the Atari ST series?
>
> According to Borland at the Comdex show, they have no plans for Modula-2
> for _any_ system.

Interesting.  Ford & Wiener's book "Modula-2 -- A Software Development
Approach" now has a red stripe across the front cover which states
"covers Turbo Modula-2".  (I think this is the 2nd edition, because
earlier books had a totally different front cover design.)  Appendix 4,
page 380 and following, is entitled "Recent Developments: Turbo
Modula-2".  Let me quote:

	Borland International, the producer of Turbo Pascal, has
	produced Turbo Modula-2, which currently runs under CP/M
	in the Z-80 environment.  They are expected to release
	an MS-DOS version for the 8086 and 80286 family of computers
	in 1986.

They go on to summarize changes and extensions in Turbo Modula-2,
including built-in generic READ, READLN, WRITE, WRITELN procedures
(as in Pascal), and language extensions for exception handling.

Moreover, at the Apple exhibition this spring in SF, Borland had
a booth where they listed Turbo Modula-2 for IBM PC as available.
Since I do not own an IBM PC, and never will, I didn't investigate
any further ...

Can anybody enlighten the net, what the true status of Turbo Modula-2
is?

--Bob Marti, ETH Zurich