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On 26 Sep 2024 01:32:26 GMT
rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

> I bought the CP/M version of Turbo Pascal mostly on a whim. "50 bucks
> -- this I gotta see." iirc it had enough non-standard extensions to
> be useful and it was on blazing hell of a lot faster than the BDS C
> compiler I was using. 

Yeah, TP was very well-regarded; not without its quirks (ah, RTE 200,)
but one of the first really *decent* programming environments for DOS/
CP/M. Enabled a lotta small independent developers to ply their trade,
back in the day...