Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!cornell!batcomputer!itsgw!steinmetz!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!Lou From: Lou@cup.portal.com (William Joseph Marriott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Borland Support (cont'd) Message-ID: <12124@cup.portal.com> Date: 4 Dec 88 13:37:20 GMT Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 15 (sorry, i accidently and prematurely transmitted the first half of this post) -- I think Turbo is best for what _I_ bought if for originally: I had a one-drive Mac Plus and wanted a system to develop programs for my Pascal course in college. The program had a very easy to use "terminal" interface and was so similar to standard pascal in that regard I could get away with not using the university mainframe for my assignments. Additionally, I could work very nicely with one drive and 1 Mb of RAM... Everything I needed fit. I still recommend Turbo for people who are writing un-maclike programs, or learning Pascal. But I would not stake the company on marketing a program written in Turbo. Not saying that Borland is a bad company; it's just that I don't think they know what they're going to do about this product. The bigge impact that Turbo Pascal for the Mac may have had is on the PC version of the compiler, which was enhanced with many of the Mac features.