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From: hirayama@suvax1.UUCP (Pat Hirayama)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Turbo 5.0 arrives!!
Message-ID: <1238@suvax1.UUCP>
Date: 7 Oct 88 17:29:19 GMT
References: <5214@juniper.uucp>
Organization: Seattle University, Seattle, WA.
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From article <5214@juniper.uucp>, by yelorose@juniper.uucp (Bob Mosley III):
> 
> ...ok, now for the 64,000 Quatloo qestion:
> 
> ...Did Borland reinstall those nice things called overlays?

	YES!  Except that now it is based on units.  (and, should therefore
	be faster).  Borland also claims smarter.  

> 
> ....howabout .CHN files?
> 

	Don't think so.....

> ...and finally, does anyone know if Borland had some sort of trade-in offer
> for ugrading from 4.0 to 5.0?

	Registered owners of Turbo Pascal can upgrade to 5.0 w/manual for
	$49.95 plus the serial number of their old TP disks.  The interesting
	thing is that the wording, or lack thereof, would seem to imply
	that 3.0 owners can also upgrade for this price.  

	Oh, and if you purchased TP 4.0 (or TC 1.5) between July 1 and Aug 31,
	you can upgrade for $24.95.

	Other prices:

	Turbo Pascal 5.0 Professional (incl. Turbo Assembler
	and Turbo Debugger)......................................$99.95

	Turbo C 2.0 Professional (incl. Turbo Assembler and
	Turbo Debugger)..........................................$99.95

	Turbo Pascal 5.0 and Turbo C 2.0 plus Turbo Assembler
	and Turbo Debugger......................................$149.95

	Turbo Pascal 5.0 Runtime Library........................$125.00
	Turbo C 2.0 Runtime Library.............................$125.00
	Turbo C Runtime Library (upgrade from RL for 1.5).......$ 50.00

	Oh yeah, $5.00 per product s/h.  Plus sales tax if you are in CA or MA.


As for new features (in TP 5.0):

	* 	Borland Integrated Debugger.
	*	EMS Memory support 
		*	Overlays will run 'smarter and faster'.
		*	The editor buffer will be placed here as well,
			thereby giving you another 64K of DOS for the
			Integrated Environment and your application.
	*	Units can have private USES statemsnts in the IMPLEMENTATION
		section.
	*	Some addition routines in the DOS unit for parsing/reading 
		environment.
	*	'procedural types'
	*	Data items are now aligned on the stack on machine word
		boundaries (therfore, it should be faster).
	*	Emulation of math co-processor, thereby allowing support
		for Single, Double, Extended and Comp IEEE Numeric types.
	*	Constant expressions can now contain expressions with
		previously defined constants, math, logical, bitwise and
		set operators.
	*	BGI is supposed to be better.
	*	Support for stand-alone Turbo Debugger.

All of the above info is from the Sept/Oct issue of Turbo Technix.   Now
first-hand report yet as I wait for Borland to fill out my order.  Oh well.
No doubt, some of you out there can fill us in.........



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