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From: <bang!crash!bwebster@Nosc>


>  But is Borland working on Turbo Pascal for the Mac, too??? There was a
>  blurb printed in INFORWORLD last year to the effect that Borland wasn't
>  going to do Turbo for the Mac, because of lack of cooperation from
>  Apple.  True or not?

My last message to info-mac got mangled (at least the version that got
back to me had a few lines missing), so I'll repeat what I said:  Philippe
Kahn told me (and has told people on CompuServe) that Borland will, indeed,
do a Turbo Pascal for the Mac.  BUT, (and this could be a big "BUT"), their
work for Commodore on the Amiga machine takes precedence over any work on
a Mac product, so there's no telling when the product might be done.  I,
for one, sure wish he'd hurry up.  I'm using MacAdvantage right now (UCSD
Pascal running under the finder).  It's actually a very nice system, but
it is *slow* in execution.  I've converted my Go board over to it (from
MacFORTH), and I've got it now playing Go against me . . . well, more
accurately, it can make moves, though I make no claims for how intelligent
those moves are.  Anyway, each time I try to add some brains, things slow
down even more.  It's frustrating waiting 10 (or more) seconds for a move
that *still* isn't all that smart.  Anyway, a true compiled Pascal would be
just marvelous (why hasn't Apple come out with a version of Lisa Pascal
running on a 512K machine?).  

					..bruce..
					Bruce Webster/BYTE
					bang!crash!bwebster@nosc