Jensen and Partners International

Software company originally founded in the UK in 1987 by Niels Jensen but he had been the original founder of software company Midas ApS/Borland but had left that company earlier in 87 and bought out the rights to the "new generation compiler" that Borland had been working on for the couple of years prior and took with him the London-based team that had been developing the new compiler tools.

The company initially released a Modula-2 compiler for DOS and OS/2 under the TopSpeed brand and followed that with versions for Pascal, C and C++. The compiler had been developed initially at Borland's London HQ as a replacement for Turbo Pascal, but that compiler, while fast, had a number of problems associated with it and it was deemed that it would be best to develop a new compiler that would have a highly optimised back end that would then have transplantable front ends the could support any language that the company deemed the market wanted.

Borland had working, but not finished front end for Ada in addition to the Pascal, Modula-2, C and C++ front-ends that were eventually released by JPI, the company finished off the development of the ADA front-end but it was never released as by the time it had been finished to a validatable standard, the USA Department of Defence had decided to sponsor a freeware versions of an Ada compiler the eventually became GNAT, and JPI decided that there was not a market for a commercial offering in competition to a free one.

Products

 * TopSpeed C
 * TopSpeed C++
 * TopSpeed Modula-2
 * TopSpeed Pascal
 * TopSpeed TechKit

Links

 * CBR: 1991-02-11
 * History of JPI, Clarion and SoftVelocity