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My understanding of the sequence of events is as below. For form's sake, 
I stress that this is based on hearsay and I'm probably not worth suing 
anyway.

Borland had an 8-bit Modula-2 compiler in about 1984, but did not put it 
onto the market themselves. Instead, somebody in the USA (Echelon) sold 
it with their 8-bit MPU controller boards together with a manual which 
was produced by Borland. ISTR there was some sort of link between Echelon 
and Steve Ciarcia (Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar in Byte) but I can't remember 
the details.

When Neils Jensen, George Barwood et al left Borland to set up JPI, they 
bought out of it (for a substantial sum) the development of the 16-bit 
Modula-2, which became JPI v1 in about 1987 or '88. At about the same 
time, Borland became unable to produce any more of the manuals and I 
believe Echelon went out of business.

Mark Morgan Lloyd
mark_tbu@cix.compulink.co.uk

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