Re: pascal

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Subject: Re: pascal
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Date: Thu, 31-Jan-85 20:17:18 EST
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From: Kevin

"There was a blurb printed in INFOWORLD last year to the effect that
Borland wasn't going to do Turbo for the mac, because of lack of
cooperation from Apple. True or not?"

Unfortunately, true.

I was at a talk Philippe Kahn gave to the Software Entrepreneur's Forum
here in Palo Alto. He said he had been invited by Apple to come by and
see what they were up to. He was given a tour of the place, and shown
MacPascal. He brought a Compaq along (he didn't think they would have
IBM compatibles around) and did a speed test between Turbo Pascal and
MacPascal (not very fair, I know, but he wanted to make a point). When
Turbo clearly showed to be the winner, the guy from Apple (unidentified)
said "But it's got windows!".

He told Philippe Apple would send him a bunch of hardware and manuals,
which he said was fine but it hasn't all arrived (no Lisa's, just a
couple of 512K Macs). Part of the problem is that Apple wouldn't give
Borland credit(!). He has complained to Apple, but the guy who gave the
demo keeps calling asking Philippe how the development is going. Didn't
sound like Borland would develop anything for the Mac.

Philippe also doesn't like the Mac. He said Apple made a big mistake
putting most of the features of the Mac into software. He's seen the
Amiga, and says the custom graphics chips make for incredible
performance. (I suppose the same could be said of the Commodore 64 sound
chip, but try programming it! Easier interfaces make for more and better
software.)

~Kevin