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From: wieland@ea.ecn.purdue.edu (Jeffrey J Wieland)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: Modula-2 for cp/m-80 (was: turbo Modula-2)
Message-ID: <4575@ea.ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 10 Aug 88 14:13:43 GMT
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Reply-To: wieland@ea.ecn.purdue.edu.UUCP (Jeffrey J Wieland)
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In article  Info-Modula2 Distribution List  writes:
>Concerning Turbo-M2: I heard (on INFO-CPM or on BIX) that Borland is NOT
>supporting the product at all, and with the demise of Echelon I don't know at
>all who supports it. That doesn't concern whether you can buy it, but it
>probably means that nobody will maintain it, fix bugs etc.

I understand that the support for FTL is not much better.  One person that I
am aware of switched from FTL to TM2 because Workman & Assoc. never responded
to the problems he reported with linking in assembly language.  Besides, TM2
produces faster (although bigger) code, and for my needs, speed is everything.

>I bought FTL-M2 (from Workman & Associates), and so far have been very happy
>with it (although I have to admit that I only wrote 20 lines of codes, and then
>had other things to do). Installation was very easy using the description in
>the manual, as long as you have at least 1MB of disk-space (it's very difficult
>on two 8" SSSD disks).

Since I have a 1 MB Advent RAM disk, TM2 will leave plenty of room for other
utilities.  It will comfortably fit on a Kaypro DSDD floppy disk.

			Jeff Wieland