Stuart McLachlan
stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Fri Feb 21 16:58:00 CST 2003
It WAS Friday in PNG at the time :-) > 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 > -- Lexacorp Ltd http://www.lexacorp.com.pg Information Technology Consultancy, Software Development,System Support.