Turbo C
Turbo C is an integrated entry level C programming environment for DOS originally introduced by Borland in 1987, it is basically a re release of the Wizard C compiler minus the LINT package but with the Borland front end tools such as IDE from the Turbo Pascal et al bolted on. The entire 1.x branch of the toolkit proved extremely problematic, the compiler in the 1.0x versions was buggy and needed further work and with the 1.5 release there was a replacement library that was not only full of errors but inconsistent as well, it is not until the 2.01 release which had been largely rewritten form scratch that the tool becomes worthwhile.
Apart from the technical issues, Turbo C became a watershed in Borland history as it caused founder Nils Jensen to leave the company and found Jensen and Partners International.
Note that the product was replaced in 1990 with Turbo C++ 1.0 product which is basically Turbo C v3 with the TauMetric C++ preprocessor added on.
Versions
- May 1987: 1.0
- Jan 1988: 1.5
- Nov 1988: 2.0
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License and availability
- Discontinued commercial software.
Publisher & authors
- Bob Jervis
- Wizard Systems Software
- Borland