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In article <8812010651.AA28730@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> gutow@BOGART.STANFORD.EDU ("JONATHON GUTOW") writes:
>
>I've been using the original release of Borland Turbo Pascal Macintosh.
>I was reasonably impressed by it.  I recently learned that they had
>fixed  some of the bugs and had release version 1.1 available.  I had
>never received a notice to this effect and was a little upset...my fault,
>I had filled out but not sent in my registration card.
>
  [story about upgrade deleted]
>
>Borland is the only computer (make that simply 'only') company I've 
>ever dealt with that actually remembers who keeps them in business.
>They don't try to charge the customer outrageous prices and they
>write good software.  They're also nice to you when you have questions!
>
>Jonathan (not Jonathon, my sysop can't spell any better than I can) Gutow
>
>Gutow@bogart.stanford.edu


Well, my experience with Borland wasn't much better.  I was/am a registered user
of Turbo Pascal, and received no notification of the upgrade either.  So it
wasn't your fault.

After I did get the upgrade, I wanted to use the SysEnvirons trap.. Ha Ha. They
hadn't updated the unit declarations to include everything of Vol V of IM.  Only
most of it.  They promised me (several time) to ship out an upgrade to include
the trap..but I've never received it or any acknowledgement saying that it was 
coming.

The upshot of all this?  If you have had good luck with Borland then more power
to you.  Me?  If you've noticed my past threads on this forum, I've switched to
TML Pascal II under MPW.  I'll give up the speed of compiles for a few simple 
things:   An editor with cursor key support (the big thing)
          The Ability to use the "official" include files, rather than waiting
            for the third party to modify them to their own format.
          A more flexible, convenient system for creating code resources of non-
            'CODE' type, i.e. FKEYS, cdevs, etc.
          And last but not least, a customer support system that I've been able
            to deal with myself.


Disclaimer:  I am just a customer of Borland and TML systems.  I don't work for
  either of them... but if they need a compiler writer...well anyway.

David D Zuhn  //  University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
 	          Computer Science Systems Consultant
                  zuhn@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu