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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: 5 Feb 89 20:01:25 GMT
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In article <758@blake.acs.washington.edu>, dj07613@blake.acs.washington.edu
 (Dick O'Connor) writes:

>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.
>

OK, ok, TP3 or less will run on my HP but Borland will not provide any support.
The box for the latest TP release says that the system must be an IBM PC
or 100% compatible. ALl this machine-specific garp is disappointing. I wonder
if there might be some kind of (shhhh) conspiracy or something to eradicate
any machine that is not 100% IBM compatible? 

>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!  
>

I guess I'll have to get meself an IBM compatible machine, just so that I
can use one of those "more efficient" products out there.

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