NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #30/NN_1992_30.iso/spool/comp/sys/atari/st/18528

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From: [e-mail] (Martin P. Ibert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Big name hype
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Date: 17 Dec 92 01:36:36 GMT
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[e-mail] writes:
> As for Borland, they did what a lot of companies are faced with
> doing.. they decided not to distribute a product in the face
> of almost certain losses.
Nonsense. Application Systems Heidelberg, which now market Pure C (Pure
Software is the outfit that designed that compiler in the first place),
sell them by the carload. They just released a Turbo-Pascal-6.0-compatible
compiler (called, what else, Pure Pascal), and it's NEAT. Borland wants to
compete with Mircosoft, and they wouldn't want to be caught supporting what
is widely (and falsely) seen as a game console.

> 700 copies of a very popular game like "Flight of the Intruder",
> how can Borland even hope to make back the cost of printing the
> manuals for a "specialty" product like their C compiler..?
That proves that you have zero insight in the matter.
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