NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #18/NN_1992_18.iso/spool/comp/lang/forth/2976

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From: [e-mail] (David Kastrup)
Subject: Borlands start. Was An Open ANSI Forth Implementation
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[e-mail] (ForthNet articles from GEnie) writes:

>Category 10,  Topic 41
>Message 57        Tue Aug 18, 1992
>E.RATHER [Elizabeth]         at 01:25 EDT
>
>RE the several people who pointed out that Borland wasn't big & famous when
>they introduced Turbo Pascal:  no, but Pascal was very widely known, as it had
>been kicking around CS depts. for years, was developed by a widely respected
>guru, and had already received a lot of notice. Borland's genius was in
>hopping on a bandwagon and doing it right.  They didn't create the bandwagon.

I believe they did not even develop the first version (under CP/M) in
the first place, although I might be mistaken. I had on my Nascom II
(historic Z80-mill) something called Blue Label Pascal from some firm
in Scandinavia. It had the same bug in the modulo routine
(-2 mod 4 = 2, -6 mod 4 = -2) as the infamous Turbo Pascal 1.0
for CP/M. And the compile/edit/run-Environment was there in BLS
too, although their local variable support used stacks instead of
static variables moved to/from stacks.

So I suppose (unless Borland is just another name) that the first
version of Turbo was based on a bought source.