John W. Colby
jcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Fri Feb 21 06:37:00 CST 2003
Believe me, Turbo Pascal did not evolve into Power Basic! John W. Colby Colby Consulting www.ColbyConsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: accessd-admin at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-admin at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Stuart McLachlan Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 11:25 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 _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com ---------------------------------------------------- Is email taking over your day? Manage your time with eMailBoss. Try it free! http://www.eMailBoss.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: winmail.dat Type: application/ms-tnef Size: 2160 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://databaseadvisors.com/pipermail/accessd/attachments/20030221/43c7cfbb/attachment-0002.bin>