Borland Sprint
A DOS word processor released by Borland France in late 1987 and in the rest of the world in the summer of 1988. Because the tool is a hodgepodge of old editor and formatting code from the 70's blended with more modern code intended to make the product match and in some cases exceed the feature sets of their competitors alongside a number of features not available elsewhere (and some not that common even today) , it made the Sprint package seem at the time of its release both forward thinking and outdated at the same time. It sold very well in France but bombed in most other places and was discontinued in 1989.
- Versions
- Release 1.50 for the French version of Sprint.
- Release 1.01 for most other language versions (equal to French version 1.02).
Links
- The unofficial Borland Sprint homepage - Most of the links on that page are dead but the site still has the old Compuserve collection of Sprint scripts and utilities.
- Documentation
- Borland Sprint Users Guide - From Archive.org
- Borland Sprint Reference Guide - From Archive.org
- Borland Sprint Advanced Users Guide - From Archive.org
- Borland Sprint Alternative User Interfaces - From Archive.org
- User manuals from Bitsavers.org
- Reviews
- A review of Borland Sprint 1.0 - From InfoWorld magazine - 1988
- A review of Final Word II - From InfoWorld magazine - 1986
History
Originally released around 1980 by Mark of the Unicorn as MINCE, a CP/M text editor that had some EMACS like functionality and UI.
Authors & publishers
- Jason Linhart (MOTU)
- Craig Finseth (MOTU)
- Scott Layson Burson (MOTU)
- Brian Hess (MOTU)
- Bill Spitzak (MOTU)
- Mark of the Unicorn
- Borland France