Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Unix on x86, Hmmm ... Downloaded Xenix - But It's *41* Floppies Worth Date: 1 Sep 2025 18:12:29 GMT Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: <108k7rn$e12$4@news.misty.com> <108l4vk$77t$1@gal.iecc.com> <108su32$3e8$1@news.misty.com> <108tdf1$2a7v9$2@dont-email.me> <10930r8$3jjop$1@dont-email.me> <1094cg4$3tttm$3@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net yIoSbVgDOM9/Y1upAy9D8gHy2d3Ks6u1MZlZac1wfHxR4C9ZXs Cancel-Lock: sha1:45IiXqOFEB4g0TSlT1Q5SMmCx6E= sha256:KA2FiUqTPfs5qbVli9xJrrdRsFAkeKVJ5Gs1RZ3wbsk= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:72937 alt.folklore.computers:231723 On Mon, 1 Sep 2025 08:01:24 -0700, Peter Flass wrote: > I don't think I ever used TP, but I did use Turbo-C. Borland had great > software, much better than any of its successors, I bought Turbo Pascal for CP/M when it came out mostly out of curiosity about what $50 would buy. Compared to the DJGPP C compiler I thought the 'hello world' exercise was broken because it compiled so fast. I didn't care for Pascal though. At least Borland's version had real world use unlike Wirth's vision of a strictly didactic language. Based on that experience years later I went with Borland C++/OWL when I got into Windows. I liked it a lot better than the Microsoft package that ultimately won.