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Article #299Turbo Pascal - The Next Version! What? How much? When?
From: alan i. vymetalik
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 1986 06:36
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 1986 06:36
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["Oh, give me a home where the line eaters roam!]
Here's a question to all you "insiders" out there in netland:
I am interested in finding out any information anyone knows
regarding the upcoming release of Borland's Turbo Pascal V4.0.
I recently wrote to the Technical Support people at Borland
officially through my software/consulting company: AVSD, Ltd.
Unfortunately, either the mail has been lost or the folks at
Borland are busier than Santa's Elves for I have not received
any kind of reply (yet). I am going to write them again soon but
I thought I'd increase my chances by asking out on the net.
I am looking for information regarding the new version's possible
capabilities, such as large-memory (>64K) addressing for both
data and code, possible optimization option for the compiler,
linkable .OBJ code generation similar to Turbo Prolog, handling
of extremely large disk files (>= 16M), and other related topics.
In other words, is Borland going to turn Turbo Pascal into a
full-blown Pascal compiler? I think they've proven the speed
so let's see the capabilities! Also, when are they going to
release it?
I am looking for this information due to the need of developing
several large systems and software packages that excede the
current capabilities of Turbo Pascal. I also need to modify
and change current software to adapt to the larger resource
requirements. I happen to personally like Turbo Pascal and its
capabilities and would prefer not to have to rewrite everything
I've already done. If Version 4.0 will not be supporting at
least the larger memory feature, I will be forced to proceed
with development under "C" (a good choice) or, possibly, FORTRAN
(arrg!).
As always, thanks are appreciated in advance,
Alan
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!rochester!ritcv!iav1917 From: iav1917@ritcv.UUCP (alan i. vymetalik) Newsgroups: net.lang.pascal,net.micro,net.micro.pc Subject: Turbo Pascal - The Next Version! What? How much? When? Message-ID: <9779@ritcv.UUCP> Date: Tue, 3-Jun-86 02:36:37 EDT Article-I.D.: ritcv.9779 Posted: Tue Jun 3 02:36:37 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 5-Jun-86 08:57:00 EDT Reply-To: iav1917@ritcv.UUCP (alan i. vymetalik) Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY Lines: 45