Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!CUNIXA.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU!vk
From: vk@CUNIXA.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Victor Kan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: Turbo Modula-2 ?
Summary: Borland DID sell it to JPI, sort of.
Message-ID: <8904030015.AA02445@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu>
Date: 3 Apr 89 00:15:16 GMT
Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Reply-To: Modula2 List <INFO-M2%UCF1VM.bitnet@jade.berkeley.edu>
Organization: The Internet
Lines: 20


> Rumor has it that Borland sold their M2 product for the IBM PCs to JPI.

Borland did sell M2 to JPI.

Niels Jensen, the J of JPI, was a co-founder of Borland
International and is currently the president of JPI.  Jensen paid
a lot of money for Borland's Modula-2, Ada and C compilers
(albeit incomplete Ada and C products) about two years ago.
Since he was a founder of Borland, he probably ended up getting
some of that money back when he divested from the company.

That C compiler was the one Borland was working on before they
decided to acquire the existing Wizard C compiler (the progenitor
of the current Turbo C).

[Most of] This information comes from an interview with Niels
Jensen printed in "The Connection" magazine's Fall 1988 issue.

Victor