Turbo Basic
Turbo Basic | |
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Name | Turbo Basic |
Version | 1.1 (1988) |
Vendor | Borland |
Author | Robert Zale |
Licence | Commercial |
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Turbo Basic was a BASIC development environment for DOS introduced by Borland in 1987 that integrated a BASIC compiler developed by Robert Zale with the IDE debugger and other programming utilities Borland had developed for Turbo Pascal.
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History
When Philippe Kahn decided to purge the Borland catalogue of all programming tools that were not object-oriented or developed in-house in 1989 the rights to the compiler reverted back to original developer Robert Zale. PC-SIG negotiated to license the IDE and related tools back from Borland and the compiler from Zale and published it under the name PowerBASIC later the same year. As PC-SIG's distribution proved to not be up to the task Zale formed a company called Power Basic Inc. and took over the distribution himself.
Version
- 1987: Turbo Basic 1.0 (also bundled in Topware Basic CD-ROM (TOP558))
- 1987: Turbo Basic 1.01
- 1987: Turbo Basic 1.1
- Add-ons
- 1987: Turbo Basic Database Toolbox
- 1988: Turbo Basic Editor Toolbox
- 1988: Turbo Basic Telecom Toolbox
Publications
- Ralph Roberts: Compute's Using Turbo Basic, M&T Books 1987, ISBN 0-87455-119-6
- Alan R. Miller: Turbo Basic Programs for Scientists & Engineers, Sybex 1987, ISBN 0-89588-429-1
- Douglas Hergent: Introduction to Turbo Basic, Sybex 1987, ISBN 0-89588-441-0
- Ellis; Lodi: Structured Programming Using Turbo BASIC, Academic Press 1988, ISBN 1-4832-6104-2
- Frederick Mosher; David Schneider: Using Turbo Basic, Osborne McGraw-Hill 1988, ISBN 0-07-881282-8
- Ken Knecht: Advanced Turbo Basic, Scott Foresman 1988, ISBN 0-673-38149-8
- Leon Wortman: The Power of Turbo Basic, Tab Books 1988, ISBN 0-8306-2997-1