John Bartow
jbartow at earthlink.net
Fri Feb 21 13:52:00 CST 2003
I never saw Turbo Basic but Turbo C and Turbo Pascal used the same UI. Maybe that s what is being referred to? JB > -----Original Message----- > From: accessd-admin at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:accessd-admin at databaseadvisors.com] > Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 6:37 AM > To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com > Subject: RE: [AccessD] Visual studio.net > > 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: 2396 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://databaseadvisors.com/pipermail/accessd/attachments/20030221/b71b8c9d/attachment-0001.bin>