I pointed out that preemptive multitasking was terrible for intensive applications like music software. At one point I tracked down the engineer who was in charge of 'preemptive multitasking'. I thought it was useless to port the software to Windows, so I went to work for Microsoft instead.

And then Borland basically went out of business. I remember the anguished looks on the faces of the Borland software engineers - they said they thought Windows was a tremendous roadblock for productive software. I was visiting Borland when the first version of Windows was released.

Jay Logan, awesome producer, recorded a #1 music hit using it. The software's been used on a bunch of movies - probably 'Spaceballs' is the most prominent. I also eventually replaced all DOS functionality with my own machine language when the software was running - screen driver, keyboard driver, mouse, drive access - because DOS just wasn't as tidy or quick as it could be. I chose Borland Turbo Pascal instead of the dominant C language because C was a laggard. I wrote the software in a little over two years of programming every waking moment for 7 days a week. I think I was the first to use the Roland interface in 'native' mode, i.e., direct to the Roland hardware. If you want a little history, I started writing the software when the MIDI spec was first released. (Incidentally, I did a web search recently and found a studio in London and one in South Africa that advertise the 64 track as their top-of-the-line software.) You might also be interested in the 64 track PC (16 more tracks!) which I released a little later in the 80's. I just took a quick look at your website - very nice.

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