Re: News on 2.1 Release

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From: Morten Christian Holmgreen
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:17

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dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:

>In article <833qXB4w165w@tcscs.UUCP> zeta%tcscs@src.honeywell.com writes:
>>I bought Turbo Pascal 6, and just a little while later 7 was released.  I
>>called Borland and got a free upgrade, to BORLAND pascal 7 with everything.
>>
>>I thought that was VERY fair.  Personally I'd have been happy with TP7, but
>>hey...they let me have BP7.

>Perhaps because there is no TP7, only BP7?
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That's not correct. TP7 is a small BP7, without protected mode/windows
capabilities. The prize for TP7 is about 40% of BP7.

BP7 demands a 80286+ and min. 2M RAM.

TP7 demands only 512K memo. But runs better with a 286+ proc.

Christian
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M. Christian Holmgreen / joker@diku.dk / mochmch@uts.uni-c.dk
M.Sc. student, University of Copenhagen, Dept. of Computer Science
"Human errors can only be avoided if one can avoid the use of humans"

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From: joker@diku.dk (Morten Christian Holmgreen)
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Subject: Re: News on 2.1 Release
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Date: 26 Jan 93 19:17:32 GMT
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