Re: Borland is stupid

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From: Wailer at the Gates of Dawn
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 04:01

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gary@resumix.portal.com (Gary M. Lin) writes:
>I don't see any Borland suits at trade shows pushing anything except
>goofy buttons that no one wants.  Then again, what are you waiting for?
We don't wear suits -- well only gorilla suits anyhow.

>Microsoft to finish NT on MIPS and Alpha, so I can run Excel and blow
>the socks off QPro?  Okay, so who cares if Lotus ported 1-2-3 for IBM
>mainframes, but at least they know they can do it on a non-PC system.
NT - plegm-T -- porting to more than one processor family; what a concept!
I say port to nextstep!  (Thats how I'm hoping to get the developers kit
anyhow).

>Then again, I just MIGHT be still upset at Borland for selling me
>SPRINT as the greatest word-processor since sliced bread.  Grrrrrrr!!
Yeah but what other word processor will allow you to write the prime sieve
in its macro language?

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From: banshee@cats.ucsc.edu (Wailer at the Gates of Dawn)
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Subject: Re: Borland is stupid
Date: 15 Sep 1992 04:01:23 GMT
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