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From: djo7613@blake.acs.washington.edu (Dick O'Connor)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Microsoft Pascal : Why does it still exis
Keywords: Turbo Pascal, MSDOS machines
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Date: 3 Feb 89 21:49:31 GMT
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Reply-To: djo7613@blake.acs.washington.edu (Dick O'Connor)
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Not to belabor a small point, but I'm running Turbo Pascal version
3.01A on a Zenith Z-100, which is definitely an MSDOS machine, but is
definitely *not* IBM PC compatible.  I used the TINST terminal
installation program that came with TP 3 to set the program up for
a "Zenith" terminal.  There are lots of other choices...I don't know
if your MSDOS machine is specifically supported, offhand.

More recent versions (TP4 and TP5) may indeed not run on generic
MSDOS machines like mine, but if I need something that only TP4 or
TP5 can handle, I ask my wife to do it on our Zenith 159 XT-clone
at home!  

When I must use a PC-clone, I prefer QuickBasic anyway (is such a
statement construed as blasphemy in this newsgroup???).


 Dick O'Connor
 Washington Department of Fisheries
 Olympia, Washington  98504
 Mail: djo7613@blake.acs.washington.edu
 DISCLAIMER: I speak for myself, not for the Department.