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From: jkr@pyr.gatech.EDU (J. Kenneth Riviere (JoKeR))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: pre 1983 computers / Borland Pascal
Message-ID: <6691@pyr.gatech.EDU>
Date: 1 Nov 88 15:48:43 GMT
References: <190@imspw6.UUCP> <10@cpro.UUCP>
Reply-To: jkr@pyr.UUCP (J. Kenneth Riviere (JoKeR))
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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In article <10@cpro.UUCP> asgard@cpro.UUCP (J.R. Stoner) writes:
>However, if you had read my original posting, you would have seen that TURBO
>did run correctly in a prior version of their compiler and their change to
>3.1 essentially broke what used to be a working and useful tool for what
>appeared to be no reasons.

How did their release of a new version of the program break a version of
the program which was already working?  Given the realities of the marketplace
it is absurd to think that a company is going to continue to support outdated
equipment endlessly when there is a much bigger market using different
equipment to which they are pitching their product.  If there is one thing you
can count on in the computer marketplace it is that if you hold on to your
hardware long enough you will eventually find that there is almost no support
available for it.  Too bad.


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