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- From: joker@diku.dk (Morten Christian Holmgreen)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps,comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: News on 2.1 Release
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.191732.21296@odin.diku.dk>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 19:17:32 GMT
- References: <833qXB4w165w@tcscs.UUCP> <1993Jan26.142045.3336@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Sender: joker@ask.diku.dk
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen
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- dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
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- >In article <833qXB4w165w@tcscs.UUCP> zeta%tcscs@src.honeywell.com writes:
- >>I bought Turbo Pascal 6, and just a little while later 7 was released. I
- >>called Borland and got a free upgrade, to BORLAND pascal 7 with everything.
- >>
- >>I thought that was VERY fair. Personally I'd have been happy with TP7, but
- >>hey...they let me have BP7.
-
- >Perhaps because there is no TP7, only BP7?
- >--
- > |) David Charlap | .signature confiscated by FBI due to
- > /|_ dic5340@hertz.njit.edu | an ongoing investigation into the
- >((|,) | source of these .signature virusses
- > ~|~
-
- That's not correct. TP7 is a small BP7, without protected mode/windows
- capabilities. The prize for TP7 is about 40% of BP7.
-
- BP7 demands a 80286+ and min. 2M RAM.
-
- TP7 demands only 512K memo. But runs better with a 286+ proc.
-
- Christian
- --
- M. Christian Holmgreen / joker@diku.dk / mochmch@uts.uni-c.dk
- M.Sc. student, University of Copenhagen, Dept. of Computer Science
- "Human errors can only be avoided if one can avoid the use of humans"
-