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In article <4558@m1.cs.man.ac.uk>, lilleyc@cs.man.ac.uk (Chris Lilley) writes:
|> In article <1992Apr8.152225.4585@csc.canterbury.ac.nz> cctr132@csc.canterbury.ac.nz (Nick FitzGerald, CSC, Uni. of Canterbury, NZ) writes:
|> 
|> >As the subject line suggests, I'm trying to track down Jensen & Partners
|> >International - JPI - the (former ?) publishers of the TopSpeed Modula-2
|> >compiler for DOS.
|> 
|> >We bought several copies of the TopSpeed Modula-2 compiler direct from
|> >JPI about a year ago, and upon trying to contact them the other day, we
|> >were told the phone number we had didn't exist and the International
|> >Tolls Operator wasn't able to find a dirctory entry for JPI.
|> 
|> >Can anyone who knows please tell me:
|> 
|> >1.  Are JPI still in business?  If so, where?  How do we ring them?
|> 
|> >2.  If they are not in business, did they sell TopSpeed Modula-2 to some
|> >other company?  If so, who?  How do we ring them?
|> 
|> As far as I am aware, JPI were bought out by Claris. I guess they had been
|> in trouble for a while; their earlier flashy adds had been replaced by
|> smaller, cheaper, less colourfull ones for about 8 monthe to a year
|> beforehand.
|> 
|> I don't recall whether Claris (I think it was Claris...) was going to
|> continue supporting JPI products - I recall that they wanted the technology
|> themselves for their own products, databases and stuff...
|> 
|> Does anyone remember better? Actually I am not sure about the company name
|> it could be Clarion or something - some company I didn't associate with
|> compilers, anyhow.
|> 
|> 	Chris

As of January '92, JPI was still in business.  They moved to somewhere in
the north east, maybe New Hampshire.  I don't have my JPI stuff here right
now, but I will try to get you there number and current address.

Last I heard, they had announced 32 bit versions of all their compiler
products for OS2 V2, and had just brought out their own DOS extender (written
in Modula-2), and their products were recently reviewed by some of the
programmer magazines, like Computer Language, PC Techniques, Dr. Dobbs, etc.
I forget which one it was, but one of the computer magazines picked their 
C++ compiler over both Borland's and Zortech.  I think the deal with Claris was
for access to some of JPI's technology, or to get JPI to develop a compiler for
them or something.  I'll see what I can find out.

Ben