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Microsoft’s early dev tools were really top notch especially considering how much of the software still runs in the most popular PC operating system.
by guestbest 3y ago
Microsoft’s early dev tools were really top notch especially considering how much of the software still runs in the most popular PC operating system.
- pjmlp 3y agoNot all of them, there is a reason why Borland ruled in the MS-DOS days. QuickPascal wasn't that great versus Turbo Pascal, and Microsof C was the last MS-DOS compiler to get C++ support. Microsoft C/C++ 7.0 was released in 1992, whereas Turbo C++ 1.0 for MS-DOS was already available in 1990. Ah, and the Borland compilers came with Turbo Vision, there was nothing like that on Microsoft side for MS-DOS. And then there was Watcom and High C++ with their MS-DOS extenders, also not available on Microsoft compilers.