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Subject: Re: Is borland abandoning Macintosh?
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Date: Sun, 22-Nov-87 15:25:00 EST
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denbeste@bgsuvax.UUCP(William DenBesten) writes in comp.sys.mac

>Found in PC week 22 sep 87, page 148:
>
>> ... early in 1988 ... there's a good chance Sir Kahn's company will
>> have sold off most of its Macintosh product lines, currently offered
>> by Borland to several firms including Apple's software spinoff, Claris.
>
>This really concerns me.
>
>Does any one have any more information about this?
>If they can't find a buyer, will they stop supporting Turbo Pascal alltogether?
>If they do find a buyer will the language/interface change?
	Considering that Borland just created a WHOLE NEW DIVISION dedicated to
Macintosh development, I think that you have very little to worry about.

>Does anyone have any info about the differences between IBM Turbo
>Pascal, Mac Turbo Pascal, and Lightspeed pascal?  I have programs that
>were ported from IBM turbo pascal to Mac Turbo pascal.  How easily can
>I port them to Lightspeed and others from IBM Turbo to Lightspeed Pascal?
	I understand (though have never tried it) that IBM Turbo and Mac
Turbo are code compatable (I would assume that libraries may differ, but other
than that..).  Porting from IBM Turbo or Mac Turbo to LSP is not a great hard-
ship, but it is neither a piece of cake.  The code itself will not need to be
rewritten but your includes/uses statements will need some rewrites since LSP
handles this stuf quite differently from both Turbo and MPW.

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