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From: A-N-Onymouse@cup.portal.com (John - DeBert)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Microsoft Pascal : Why does it still exis
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Date: 2 Feb 89 20:06:45 GMT
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In article <2529@nunki.usc.edu> sawant@nunki.usc.edu writes:

>
>In the domain of Pascal implementations, Turbo Pascal is really head
>and shoulders ahead of the competition (evidenced by the sheer lack of
>competition ?).  How and why does Microsoft keep churning out newer
>versions (each of them ponderous and painful) of Microsoft Pascal ?
>
>Is there any large group of people who would actually prefer MSP ?
>
>	-ajay
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>You're never too old to have a happy childhood.
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>ajay shah (213)745-2923 or sawant@nunki.usc.edu
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Hopfully each version of MS Pascal will work on all MS-DOS machines? Turbo
Pascal cannot but works only on IBM PC's & 100% compatibles. TP resolutely
refuses to cooperate on my HP-150 running MS-DOS. I'm glad that there is
*something* that will run on any MS-DOS machine. 

There are a lot of MS-DOS machines that are not IBM compatible. (Yes there
really are!) They've got to have something to do.

J DeBert

A-N-Onymouse@cup.portal.com