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From: CDCKAB%EMUVM1.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu ( Karl Brendel)
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Subject: Re: Turbo Pascal history
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Date: 7 Feb 91 15:13:38 GMT
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In article <1991Feb6.205927.8573@ims.alaska.edu>, ftpam1@acad3.alaska.edu
  (MUNTS PHILLIP A) wrote:

>In article <29885@usc>, ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) writes...
>>In article <1991Feb6.001222.15320@IRO.UMontreal.CA> fleurent@IRO.UMontreal.CA
> (Charles Fleurent) writes:
>>>
>>>  If someone knows about Turbo Pascal history (or has a reference about it),
>>> would like to know what were the significative improvements for each version
>>> of Turbo Pascal and the time they were released. For instance, I know that
>>> Turbo 5.5 implemented object-oriented programming. What about the earlier
>>> versions?
>>
>1.0     Initial release for Z80 CP/M.  Generated fast code in an amazingly
>        short amount of time.  This event marked the very zenith of CP/M.
>        I remember a review with a comment something like this:  "No, our
>        listed compilation times are not typographical errors!"
>
>2.0     First version for the IBM PC.  A quick and dirty port of the CP/M
>        compiler.  There was also a revision of the CP/M compiler, but I
>        don't remember the changes.

[...remainder deleted...]

Although 2.0 may have been the first release that had an IBM-specific
version, there was a 1.0 release for MS-DOS machines. I still have
it and the manual. The 1.0 MS-DOS release ran quite well on IBM PCs.
Working on a dual-floppy, 256K PC at that time, I copied the entire
TURBO.COM onto many work diskettes in order to use the Turbo editor.

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