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From: tim@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (Timothy L. Kay)
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Subject: Re: Any body willing to part with Turbo C or Pascal?
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Date: Thu, 29-Oct-87 02:42:39 EST
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>>>Also, do you have an old copy of Turbo Pascal that you are no longer
>>>using?  I'll buy a copy for $20 to the first response.
>Thought I'd be the first person to point out that if you are unsatisfied
>with an older version of TP, and wanted to get rid of it for that reason,
>Borland is offering a nice, relatively inexpensive, upgrade to TP 4.0, which
>seems to be a fairly decent implementation of a lousy language.  I'm
>relative certain that this is why Tim and Laszlo want it.
>
> Sean Eric Fagan          Office of Computing/Communications Resources

I made the original posting, and I have received two interesting responses.
First, I am *not* planning on upgrading to 4.0.  I am looking for a
second copy for a friend who wants to learn to program.  My guess is that
version 3.0 is simpler to use.  It is probably also faster because there
is no linking.  I say a second copy because, eventhough I don't use my
current copy of Turbo Pascal, I wouldn't part with it due to sentimental
reasons.

The other response was from somebody who had a copy of 3.0, and wouldn't
be needing it because the 4.0 upgrade would be arriving soon.  In this
case I am wondering, may he sell the original???  In other words, if you
get an upgrade of a software package, do you end up with two licenses?

I don't think so, but it is an interesting question.

Tim