jwcolby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Wed May 6 15:28:21 CDT 2009
I started learning Turbo Pascal about 1984. I subsequently bought and actually used their "toolboxes" including a database and graphics toolbox. I ran it on a Single Board Computer that I built myself from a kit (think soldering iron) and it had a 16 mhz 80186, 512K RAM a dual UART and a dual 8" floppy disk, and ran CPM-86. For the day it was a smokin' machine. In fact when I finally caved and switched to an XP clone I took a major hit in speed, moving down to an Epson 8 mhz 80188. However that machine had 640 K of main memory and a 2 meg ram expansion board, plus... a 10 meg HARD DISK! I continued to learn Turbo Pascal and later Turbo C on that machine. I programmed almost exclusively in Borland products until I switched to Access in 1994. Lots of enjoyable years using their products. John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com Salakhetdinov Shamil wrote: > Hi All, > > FYI: http://www.sdtimes.com/link/33460 > > "Bottom line: Borland is gone, and good riddance. Ted Bahr is right: Few should mourn its passing. The differentiation is now clear: If you want ALM suites, go to Micro Focus. If you want application performance management tools, go to Compuware. And if you want developer tools, go to Embarcadero." > > That's a pity - I started to work on PCs (PC XT 10MB HDD!!!) using Borland's Turbo C and Turbo Pascal - that were very good development tools for PCs, probably the best, for that time... > > -- > Shamil