Ah yes. And Borland Pascal. Mode X VGA hackery in unreal mode. Later, when I worked for a software store in high school, I acquired Borland C++ 3.1, the physica

Ah yes. And Borland Pascal. Mode X VGA hackery in unreal mode. Later, when I worked for a software store in high school, I acquired Borland C++ 3.1, the physically-largest and heaviest (27 lbs / 12.2 kg) retail software package that I know of. It was a small software shop, they gave us crazy discounts, vendors gave us NFRs and they let us borrow anything on the shelf (trusty-dusty shrinkwrap machine). The profiler, debugger, and assembler were also good as there were protected-mode variants that could sometimes keep the machine from crashing.