Sven Barth wrote:
Hello together!
On the German news site Heise (for those that can read German:
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/30-Jahre-Turbo-Pascal-Integrierter-Ansatz-revolutionierte-die-Softwareentwicklung-2050920.html
) I've just read that Turbo Pascal was released today on the 20th
November 30 years ago. In that sense Happy Birthday! And here is a link
to a Turbo Pascal 1.0 download on the Embarcadero site:
http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/20693
How time flies (and let's keep the DateDiff thread out of this). I'm
fairly sure that I had a dozen or so copies of v1, running on CP/M-86
(actually CCP/M-86 networked) systems, each with 128Kb.
Allowing that early Turbo Pascal came in something like eight variants
(CP/M, CP/M-86, PC-DOS and MS-DOS, each with floating- or fixed-point
maths) I'm not sure that Borpricocadero has progressed very far in the
multiplatform game, and allowing that even a university department or a
cash-strapped student could afford it they definitely haven't come very
far with their cost-effectiveness.
--
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
[Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]
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