Memories of Turbo Pascal version 1.0

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"... Philippe Kahn was hired around this time and I remember Niels coming back from the US telling how great a marketing genius Philippe was ..."

I didn't realise that Borland was founded pre-Kahn by Jensen,Henriksen and Mogens. It shows though, after you create the widget the one who can capitalise the widget gets the chance to become "Chairman, President and CEO" ..

"... If you have owned Borland C++ 3.1 for a long time, your installation copy may use PKZIP file compression instead of PAK file compression ..." ~ http://www.zeta.org.au/~grove/techinfo/ti1752.txt

and get to name their own file extension (.pak)

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