Rob, Thanks for bringing this up.
I stand corrected based on an article I found on Borland's site. I would assume they would know, if anyone would. http://community.borland.com/article/0,1410,20693,00.html The Borland article indicates that they licensed technology from another company to jumpstart Turbo Pascal. This sounds alot like the story of how Microsoft licensed the original DOS 1.0 from another company (which as I remember it was actually just one guy) for the original IBM PC. My recollection is that MS didn't make any changes to DOS themselves until version 2.0, but maybe I got that wrong as well. My bad information was based on a trade magazine article I read years ago that described how Kahn started selling Turbo Pascal 1.0 while, as I recall, he was living above someone's garage and had virtually no funds available. The article credited the fabulous success of the project to Kahn's ability to con (no pun intended) a number of magazines, including Byte, into running full page ads for Turbo Pascal on credit. The article credited Kahn as the author of Turbo Pascal, and given his academic history with the creator of the language, it sounded feasible. I remember when this all happened, and it was very revolutionary at the time. I think I paid $49.95 for my first copy of Turbo Pascal, and the compiler I was using at the time was the IBM BASIC Compiler which I paid around $499 for. This was actually written by Microsoft, but the copyright was in fine print only. Microsoft was virually unknown at the time. Thanks again for the correction. Glenn Lawler www.incodesystems.com -----Original Message----- From: Rob Kennedy [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 2:17 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [delphi-en] Delphi and where it's going Glenn B. Lawler wrote: > By the way, Philippe Kahn (who originally wrote Turbo Pascal and founded > Borland, as everyone knows), studied under Niklaus Wirth at ETH Zurich, > (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology). See > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklaus_Wirth > for details. Speaking of Wikipedia, if you have a source for that Philippe Kahn/Turbo Pascal claim, you might want to update all the articles that say Anders Hejlsberg wrote it. -- Rob ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> See what's inside the new Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/2pRQfA/bOaOAA/yQLSAA/i7folB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ----------------------------------------------------- Home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/delphi-en/ To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/delphi-en/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
