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From: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Turbo C 2.0 / pricing reality, buil
Message-ID: <361@mccc.UUCP>
Date: 26 Oct 88 19:16:07 GMT
References: <182@imspw6.UUCP> <16800385@clio> <1104@pc.ecn.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg)
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In article <1104@pc.ecn.purdue.edu> jmoore@pc.ecn.purdue.edu.UUCP (James D Moore) writes:
...In article <16800385@clio> berger@clio.las.uiuc.edu writes:
...>
...>Borland's development environment works ok on a 100% compatible
...>machine, but the Microsoft stuff continues to work on generic
...>ms-dos computers.  To those of us with an investment in machines
...>that aren't 100% compatible, that's a big selling point.
...>
.... I do all of my PC program writing with Borland and
...90% of it is done on my XT compatable system at home.

That's what he said: you have a 100% compatible.  He's talking about
odd-ball machines that existed a few years ago that were 80% compatible,
but I can't think of the names.  Knowledgeable folk junked those when
the prices of 100% compatibles dropped.
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