[AccessD] Visual studio.net

Stuart Sanders stuart at pacific.net.hk
Fri Feb 21 05:21:00 CST 2003


I just started with PowerBasic last week, and while it has a steep curve
to get used to the more direct way it does things, it is nice being able
to build smallish apps that compile under 100K.

Stuart

> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-admin at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-admin at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of
> Stuart McLachlan
> Sent: Friday, 21 February, 2003 12:25 PM
> To: John W. Colby; accessd at databaseadvisors.com
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Visual studio.net
>
>
> On 20 Feb 2003 at 22:28, John W. Colby wrote:
>
> > Check this out.  I installed visual studio.net.
> >
> > 33,077 files, and 2.88 gb.
> >
> > Whatever happened to turbo pascal and the 12mb install?
> >
>
> It "evolved" into PowerBasic and it's now a 15MB install. :-)
>
> 1984 Borland released it's first version of Turbo Pascal
> 1987 Borland released it's first version of Turbo Basic
> (developed by Bob Zale)
> 1990 Bob Zale bought back Turbo Basic and released as PowerBasic
>
>
>
>
> --
> Stuart McLachlan
> Lexacorp Ltd
> Application Development,  IT Consultancy
> http://www.lexacorp.com.pg
>
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