Date   : Tue, 06 Mar 1984 06:53:30 EST
From   : Charlie Strom (NYU) <strom@brl-bmd>
Subject: Re: Bugs in Turbo Pascal

You might want to point out to Mr. Kahn that there is a serious bug in
his advertising - nowhere does it indicate that his 8 bit Turbo Pascal
is written in Z80 code rather than 8080. It would certainly be a logical
assumption that if unspecified, it is indeed 8080, since it is advertised
to run under CP/M-80.
Another foolishness that irks me (unrelated to the above issue) is that
it seems to be getting more and more difficult to determine
exactly what machine an advertised package is targeted to. This seems
particularly rampant among the vendors of Apple software. The implicit
assumption that the target machine is clearly the only machine worth
writing software for is ridiculous. How difficult would it be to
specify in a single sentence what micro the software is designed for,
as well as operating system, ram, and I/O requirements?