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The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
Turbo C
<language> {Borland}'s {C} {compiler} for {IBM PCs}.
Turbo C, version 1.0, was introduced by Borland in 1987. It
offered the first integrated edit-compile-run development
environment for {C} on {IBM PCs}. It ran in 384KB of memory.
It allowed inline assembly, supported all memory models, and
offered optimisations for speed, size, {constant folding}, and
{jump elimination}.
Version 1.5 shipped on five 360 KB diskettes of uncompressed
files, and came with sample C programs, including a stripped
down spreadsheet called mcalc.
Turbo C 2.0 has a debugger, a fast assembler, and an extensive
graphics library.
Turbo C has been largely supplanted by {Turbo C++}, introduced
circa September, 1990 for both {MS-DOS} and {Microsoft
Windows}.
["Compiling the facts on C", Richard Hale Shaw, PC Magazine,
September 13, 1988, pages 115-183].
(1996-10-31)