> It was thus said that the Great Richard Erlacher once stated:
> >
> > > This is the sickest aspect of the whole computer industry, ALL of the
> > > companies that made fairly good reliable products went under from the
> > flood
> > > of dollars the BAD heavily marketed software generated via updates.
> > >
> > Well, I wish a few more of them would go. I can't imagine what companies,
> > now defunct, produced this set of "fairly good reliable products " have gone
> > down the toilet because they were outspent or outmarketed by MS. An example
> > or two would be nice.
>
> Borland? Oh that's right, you don't do software development. Umm ...
>
> -spc (Hey, at least that's one ... )
Boy do I miss Turbo Pascal and Turbo C and the great support and free
patches and upgrades on Compuserve. (Pre-www...)
No fixed in next release... If it was broken they replaced the library
that they had... pretty quick.
Bill
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Received on Sun May 07 2000 - 18:23:44 BST