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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.

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

Roberts: Compute's Using Turbo Basic, M&T Books, ISBN 0-87455-119-6
Ellis; Lodi: Structured Programming Using Turbo BASIC, Academic Press 1988, ISBN 1-4832-6104-2
Mosher; Schneider: Using Turbo Basic, Osborne McGraw-Hill 1998, ISBN 0-07-881282-8
Wortman: The Power of Turbo Basic, Tab Books 1988, ISBN 0-8306-2997-1

Links

Borland Turbo BASIC Owners Handbook (1987)

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+{{Software
+|Name=Turbo Basic
+|Version=1.1 (1988)
+|Vendor=[[Borland]]
+|Author=Robert Zale
+|Licence=Commercial
+}}
 '''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]].
 ==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, after 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.
+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==
+[[Image:Borland-tb.jpg|right]]
 *1987: Turbo Basic 1.0 (also bundled in Topware Basic CD-ROM (TOP558))
 *1987: Turbo Basic 1.01
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 ==Publications==
 * Roberts: ''Compute's Using Turbo Basic'', M&T Books, ISBN 0-87455-119-6
 * Ellis; Lodi: ''Structured Programming Using Turbo BASIC'', Academic Press 1988, ISBN 1-4832-6104-2
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 ==Links==
 * [https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_borlandBorsHandbook1987_15768512 Borland Turbo BASIC Owners Handbook] (1987)
-==Authors and publisher==
-* Robert Zale(Original author)
-* [[Borland]] (Original publisher)
-* PC-SIG
-* Power Basic Inc.
 [[Category:BASIC development environment]]