Comments on: Borland/CodeGear 25th Anniversary is today!

By: TrSek

TrSek — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 07:37:46 +0000

More program for Turbo Pascal as free on www.trsek.com/pas

By: Mark Tiede

Mark Tiede — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:10:35 +0000

Developed? I think you mean mushroomed. Looking back at the huge power, great documentation and outstanding price of the Turbo Pascal series makes me long for those days. The latest IDE versions can’t keep the keyboard focus, crash frequently, quicker and better results to search the net for help than use the local help file, and the price makes me wince. Our small company is bleeding heavily to buy Delphi. I long for the good old days…

By: Daniel Lehmann

Daniel Lehmann — Tue, 06 May 2008 14:53:56 +0000

You forgot Kylix Also it would be nice to show how the price of a Turbo Pascal / Delphi box developed over time

By: David Intersimone

David Intersimone — Mon, 05 May 2008 15:24:12 +0000

C Johnson - thank you for the nice comments about TP4. It was an important release for sure - adding units for separate compilation. Originally TP4 was also supposed to get the dynamic memory manager (included in TP5) as a replacement for TP3’s overlays, but the new memory manager (marketing name VROOMM) wasn’t ready for the TP4 ship timeframe. We asked PK for permission to delay the release of TP4 so that we could get the new memory manager in, but he countered by asking us how much of our paychecks we would do without to delay TP4. Some customers couldn’t move their TP3 applications to TP4 because of they were too large. When TP5 came out all was well for the TP3 overlay users.

By: David Intersimone

David Intersimone — Mon, 05 May 2008 15:20:23 +0000

Timur - thank you for the notes - you are right about TV not part of TP5, my mistake (fixed now). TP5.0 included the dynamic memory manager for larger applications (replacement for TP3’s overlay manager).

By: Timur Safin

Timur Safin — Sun, 04 May 2008 19:34:22 +0000

Congratulations. Ahh, those old/good dos times, where Turbo line of product was rally shining…
Anyhow, I scanned history your briefly described, and my eyes scratched those strange lines, which look not entirely correct.

1988: Turbo Pascal v5.0 ships with Turbo Vision and integrated debugger
1990: Borland Announces Turbo Pascal v5.5 (with objects) and Turbo Debugger v1.5

I do visually recollect that nice TurboVision look, and IIRC it was a TP6.0 which originally released with TurboVision. And besides all TV was an object framework, it can’t be implemented in 5.0 where there weren’t objects yet. Though, TurboDebugger was very similar to that we get in TV. Was it a precursor for final TV look?

By: Marco Sangali

Marco Sangali — Sat, 03 May 2008 04:48:00 +0000

Congrats to all! Thanks for making programming funnier and more productive for all these years!

By: C Johnson

C Johnson — Sat, 03 May 2008 00:43:56 +0000

You didn’t list the Turbo Pascal 4.0 release! It was a big, big step for TP. I got my copy for 100$ cdn (probably about 60$ US at the time).

If you happen to have a spare boxed copy around, I lost my manual a long time ago and would love the chance to replace it… That was a well written manual - if you get the chance, show it and the manuals for TPW 1.5 and Borland Pascal For Windows 7.0 to the document teams as an area where the documentation use to truely excel. (The Delphi 1 and Delphi 2 manual sets were also exceptionally good documentation)

By: Rodrigo Ruz

Rodrigo Ruz — Fri, 02 May 2008 23:40:16 +0000

Congratulations!

David

I still remember Turbo Pascal 7, TurboMan.

See you in Chile

By: Serguei Dosyukov

Serguei Dosyukov — Fri, 02 May 2008 21:53:23 +0000

Congratulations! Time is a magic thing. Memories about Turbo Pascal are still fresh

Ps. I’d like to contribute to your list with this reference http://www.dragonsoft.us/delphi_history.php.
Thank you for additional information.