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DOS? Like in MSDOS? There is something I haven't heard in a long while. Turbo C was the shit back in the day. Until MS came in and pushed Borland out of the wa

• wduquette 23d ago
  To be fair, Borland pushed MS out of the way first, IIRC. Borland was affordable; Microsoft Pascal and C were not. I miss Borland; they did good work.
  • iLemming 23d ago
    Borland was huuuge. The name was so prominent, my college-mate one day (without a hint of irony) said: "All this time I thought the first name of Pascal - the mathematician, was Borland and that's how the company got the name. I just learned I was wrong, it's Blaise..." When Hejlsberg left Borland to work at Microsoft and then made C# and .NET, etc., I followed like a blind, newborn kitten. And then I spent years drinking that kool-aid. I regret this decision to this day. What a waste of my youth.
  • reddit_clone 22d ago
    So long ago, I don't even recall the name. They had a C++ GUI library, much better than MFC that came later and eclipsed it. EDIT: Found it. It was called OWL