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- From: lhp@daimi.aau.dk (Lasse Hiller|e Petersen)
- Subject: Re: Turbo Pascal for a Kaypro II
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.190408.23357@daimi.aau.dk>
- Sender: lhp@daimi.aau.dk (Lasse Hiller|e Petersen)
- Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark
- References: <9211161429.AA06349@LL.MIT.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 19:04:08 GMT
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- sage@LL.MIT.EDU (Jay Sage) writes:
- > It was nice of someone in a recent posting to recommend my wife's
- >company, Sage Microsystems East, as a source for Turbo Pascal for CP/M.
- >Unfortunately, that product is no longer available. After Borland declined
- >to renew Alpha Software's license, Bill Roch (Elliam Associates) and I tried
- >to convince them to release the software in some form (such as licenses to
- >other distributors), but they refused. This is a real shame, because Turbo
- >Pascal is still an excellent product. If Borland finds it too much trouble
- >to count the small sums of money a license could bring in (for no work on
- >their part at all), the least they could do is release the product to the
- >public domain.
-
- This sounds as the same problem the Macintosh community has with Borland's
- Reflex database.
-
- But perhaps some of you know that Borland _bought_ Turbo Pascal from a Danish
- company called PolyData. While Borland was selling the compiler under the
- name "Turbo Pascal" in the USA and elsewhere, it what still being sold in
- Denmark as COMPAS Pascal. Borland furnished it with a better (WordStar-like)
- Editor, which eventually appeared in COMPAS Pascal version 3.
- (I still prefer the extremely simple editor in COMPAS Pascal v.2.20 ;-)
- COMPAS Pascal was also available for CP/M-86 and Concurrent-CP/M.
- (It was popular in the late 80's for use with the Regnecentralen Piccoline
- computers -- with the 80186 CPU -- used at many schools in Denmark.)
-
- Maybe it is worth investigating whether PolyData still holds the rights on
- COMPAS Pascal?
-
-
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