Thursday, July 30, 2009

How did turbo c compiler get its name?

Borland released Turbo Pascal in 1983. The IDE was a big hit - It came a single executable .COM file and the whole code/build/run process was amazingly quick in comparison to other early IDEs, like for example Microsoft Pascal which was much slower. Hence the label "Turbo" that was typical for Borland products 20 years ago.


Turbo C is also a Borland IDE and compiler. It inherited the name from very successful Turbo Pascal product line (discontinued in 1992).


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