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- From: karlth@rhi.hi.is (Karl Thoroddsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
- Subject: Re: Does Borland plan to support NT on non-X86 archtectures?
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- Date: 16 Nov 92 12:57:02 GMT
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- In <hatton.721878944@cgl.ucsf.edu> hatton@socrates.ucsf.edu (Tom Hatton) writes:
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- >karlth@rhi.hi.is (Karl Thoroddsen) writes:
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- >>Borland is working on both NT & OS/2 compilers. I would guess that their
- >>development priorities have by now shifted from OS/2 over to NT so we
- >>should be able to get our hands on a NT & WIN32S compiler possibly in the
- >>first half of '93.
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- >Glad to see that the board of directors at Borland is keeping you
- >informed as to their plans - or are you perhaps psychic?
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- Ho Ho! Hold your horses Tom!
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- I said: "I would *guess* <Borland puts NT before OS/2>".
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- >They have the OS/2 C++ compiler in beta, now, and it certainly will
- >be out before an NT offering from them, unless you have hard data
- >to the contrary. Having seen the beta for OS/2, it looks very nice;
- >as, no doubt, will the version for NT, when it finally arrives.
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- Borland will without doubt release BC++ for OS/2 and perhaps even before the
- NT or WIN32S version(s) but I would *think* that they, like most other
- major software companies, consider the Windows API to be the API that the
- market has chosen.
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- >Tom
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- Karl
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