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From: gardner@prls.UUCP (Robert Gardner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Is borland abandoning Macintosh?
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Date: Mon, 23-Nov-87 14:37:19 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 23 14:37:19 1987
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In article <1394@bgsuvax.UUCP> denbeste@bgsuvax.UUCP (William C. DenBesten) writes:
>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.

Probably a silly rumor. Borland seems to have committed itself more
strongly to the Mac since Sept. But, then, you never can tell...

>Does anyone have any info about the differences between IBM Turbo
>Pascal, Mac Turbo Pascal, and Lightspeed pascal?

I don't have direct experience converting IBM Turbo to Mac Turbo but
a colleague of mine does. I could provide more detailed info on request.
However, to be brief, he was VERY disappointed with compatability
between the two products. I was quite surprised to hear this, since
you would think that the main motivation for doing the port was to give
customers access to that large body of IBM Turbo code.
The problems I remember offhand were: movetoxy uses screen coordinates
with (0,0) in the upper-left-hand corner of the IBM screen but in the
middle of the Mac screen (I can't possibly imagine why this change was
made); and most of the extensions to Pascal in IBM Turbo are not
available in Mac Turbo. The Mac Turbo seems more concerned about Lisa
Pascal compatability than IBM Turbo compatability. Strange choice in
my opinion.

Robert Gardner