Re: Turbo Pascal 1.0 trivia

Arne Frick wrote:
> Remember the original Turbo Pascal for CP/M compiler from Borland? A
> colleague claims it was based on p-code, but my memory tells me
> otherwise. As far as I remember, it was the first native-code
> compiler for Pascal at the time.


Someone is probably confusing Turbo with an earlier system called
JRT-Pascal which was marketed and sold real inexpensively a year or so
before Turbo and was (I believe) p-code. My perception is that Turbo
probably wiped them out marketing wise as JRT had a number of
defiiciencies that let to many saying it wasn't really even pascal. I
recall it being released to some archive as freeware a few years later.
If you need more specifics I could probably find ad's in old mags.


Turbo was always a compiler.


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