Turbo Pascal

Turbo Pascal is a software development system that includes a <a href="/facts/Compiler/WNfCDFJe">compiler</a> and an <a href="/facts/Integrated_development_environment/jbEINSQf">integrated development environment</a> (IDE) for the programming language <a href="/facts/Pascal_(programming_language)/b3yvp8bF">Pascal</a> running on the <a href="/facts/Operating_system/8XTuvMh2">operating systems</a> <a href="/facts/CP%2fM/n5rTgXdC">CP/M</a>, <a href="/facts/CP%2fM-86/x6BzDadH">CP/M-86</a>, and <a href="/facts/MS-DOS/fVrrz1uN">MS-DOS</a>. It was originally developed by <a href="/facts/Anders_Hejlsberg/E1GJCekr">Anders Hejlsberg</a> at <a href="/facts/Borland/crI5pTzW">Borland</a>, and was notable for its very fast compiling. Turbo Pascal, and the later but similar <a href="/facts/Turbo_C/guLaLnDR">Turbo C</a>, made Borland a leader in PC-based development tools.
For versions 6 and 7 (the last two versions), both a lower-priced Turbo Pascal and more expensive Borland Pascal were produced; Borland Pascal was oriented more toward professional software development, with more <a href="/facts/Library_(computing)/xRzL3P7q">libraries</a> and standard library <a href="/facts/Source_code/o9J6Jv23">source code</a>. The name Borland Pascal is also used more generically for Borland's dialect of the language Pascal, significantly different from Standard Pascal.
Borland has released three old versions of Turbo Pascal free of charge because of their historical interest: the original Turbo Pascal (now known as 1.0), and versions 3.02 and 5.5 for DOS, while Borland's French office released version 7.01 on its FTP.

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Turbo Pascal