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From: rohn@pyr1.acs.udel.EDU (David C Rohn)
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Subject: Re: Microsoft Pascal : why does it still exist ?
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Date: 1 Feb 89 15:46:44 GMT
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In article <33315@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Christopher Schanck <schanck@cis.ohio-state.edu> writes:
>
>I don't prefer MSP, that is for sure, but up until TP4.0, MSP was your
>only option for truly large programs, since TP was limited to the
>.COM format. 'Course, who would want to code large programs in MSP, anyway?
>
According to Infoworld, Microsoft is readying a "Quick Pascal" for release,
which is source-code compatible with Turbo (Not sure which version).  If they
change MS Pascal the same way, there may be a showdown at the Pascal corral.