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If you are interested in the history of Windows, as I am, you should read the article The Secret Origin of Windows by Tandy Trower the product manager of Windows 1.0. This article gives a deep insight into the journey Tandy and his developers had to endure to bring a product on the market that should change the world (although it took a while).
Tandy also mentions the competitor Borland with its famous Turbo Pascal (that I also used) and how it got Bill Gates to tremble.
At $50 for the Borland product vs. the Microsoft $400 compiler, it was a bit like comparing a VW to a Porsche. But while Turbo Pascal was lighter weight for serious development, it was almost as quick for programming and debugging as Microsoft’s BASIC interpreters
I wonder if the comment about the speed is true?
And did you know that Microsoft had been using the language Pascal for their projects until they developed C ?
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Yogi Yang
13|Mar|2010 1What you have highlited applies even today.
If EMB will slash prices of Delphi to 1/4 of what it is today it will surely bring in more users just as its ancestors (borland) did to enter the market and broke all records!
glh
15|Mar|2010 2Yes, it is known that the first versions Windows were development with use Pascal.
At Microsoft there was a product – QuickPascal.
Working out QuickPascal has been stopped in exchange for the termination of working out Borland TurboBasic.
PS. Sorry for computer translate.
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