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From: rar@auc.UUCP (Rodney Ricks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Aztec and Lattice. Do they suck? (Really: Turbo Pascal)
Summary: Turbo was supposed to be THE Pascal for the Amiga
Message-ID: <32343@auc.UUCP>
Date: 13 Dec 89 17:53:45 GMT
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In article <610@bmers58.UUCP< keithh@atreus.UUCP (Keith Hanlan) writes:
<In article 840445m@aucs.UUCP (Alan McKay) writes:
<>In article <4017@vax1.tcd.ie> rwallace@vax1.tcd.ie writes:
<>>
<>>... there is no chance whatsoever of Turbo C being ported, Borland
<>>do only MS-DOS stuff.
<>>
<>Actually, they also do MacIntosh as well, so I am optimistic that they will
<>wake up some day and do the port.
<
<	It's been a while since I've heard this but the story I heard is
<	that Borland actually did a lot of the port but shelved it when CBM
<	pissed them off. Is there any truth to this?

According to a rumor that I read in Creative Computing (anybody here remember
Creative Computing?), Turbo Pascal was supposed to be the OFFICIAL Pascal for
the Amiga.

Of course, that article was written a LONG time ago (well before the Amiga's
release, and well before comp.sys.amiga began).  It may have even been before
the deal with MetaCompCo (who supplied "Amiga Pascal", back in the old days).

Maybe Commodore pissed Borland off by getting their "official" Pascal from
MetaCompCo.  If so (and if they didn't HAVE to do it to get the DOS), I think
that they made a BIG mistake.

Turbo Pascal/C/etc. for the Amiga would be good to have, even if just to let
the PC Clone people see that we have 'real' software, too.

<Keith Hanlan
<Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada 613-765-4645
<uunet!utgpu!bnr-vpa!bnr-fos!bmers58!atreus!keithh or keithh@bnr.ca

Rodney Ricks
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Rodney Ricks,   Morehouse College                                        \/