Borland Pascal

Successor of Turbo Pascal Professional that fully introduced to the PC the Object Pascal changes and extensions to the language that had been introduced to the Macintosh version of the TP compiler and had partially been implemented in TP 5.5. It was sold side by side with TP and offered several improvements intended for professional programmers such as support for extended and expanded memory, allowing the toolkit to work with much larger programs, and introduced new targets in the form of Microsoft Windows 3.x and protected mode DOS.

Borland later introduced Turbo Pascal 7 which was a cut-down version of Borland Pascal rather than a development of the previous TP v6 product, and synchronised the version numbers, giving BP version 1 the version 7 number. The main differences between TP7 and BP7 were the lack of support for Windows and 386 protected mode DOS targets, with some extra libraries also supplied with BP.

See also: Turbo Pascal

Publications

• Jose De Jesus: Borland Pascal With Objects 7.0 - MIS Press 1993, ISBN 1-55828-247-5
• Ed Mitchell; Namir Shammas: Borland Pascal Developer's Guide - Que, ISBN 0-88022-862-8
• Alan R. Miller: Borland Pascal Programs for Scientists and Engineers - Sybex, ISBN 0-7821-1150-5
• Scott Palmer: Programming in Borland Pascal - Sybex, ISBN 0-7821-1151-3
• Paul Cilwa: Borland Pascal 7 Insider - Wiley 1993, ISBN 0-471-59894-1