Re: Computing Editorial (please read)

["Ross Simpson" <yeah_whatever>]

"Paul Schlyter" <pausch@saaf.se> wrote in message...

> Borland appeared some 5-8 years later though.  The only 8-bit product
> by Borland was Turbo Pascal, where versions 1 to 3 were released also
> for CP/M-80.  Yes, Turbo Pascal for CP/M-80 blew away the competition
> by other CP/M-80 compilers: it was some 5-10 times cheaper, it
> compiled much faster, and the compiled programs even ran faster!  Its
> only major disadvantage was that Turbo Pascal for CP/M-80 *required*
> a Z80 --- thus neither Turbo Pascal, nor .COM files produced by Turbo
> Pascal, would run on an 8080 CP/M-80 system.

Would be interesting to see if any of those 8080s machines can get some of
those Z80 instructions to try & get Turbo Pascal compiling those programs
for it.

> Borland never released any Basic for an 8-bit microprocessor.
>
> Borland bought a Basic compiler with IDE from some people and
> marketed it as "Turbo Basic" for some years; after that Borland sold
> it back to the same people, who improved it and continued to market
> it but under a different name: Power Basic.  I think you still can
> buy Power Basic if you would want to.

Power BASIC to my knowledge is Crippleware. It's also loosely based on
Micro$-off QBASIC, but claims it can bring more power to your programs
(supposively).

Kind Regards,
Ross.