Turbo C

language Borland's C compiler for IBM PCs.

Turbo C, version 1.0, was introduced by Borland in 1987. It

offered the first integrated edit-compile-run development

environment for C on IBM PCs. It ran in 384KB of memory.

It allowed inline assembly, supported all memory models, and

offered optimisations for speed, size, constant folding, and

jump elimination.

Version 1.5 shipped on five 360 KB diskettes of uncompressed

files, and came with sample C programs, including a stripped

down spreadsheet called mcalc.

Turbo C 2.0 has a debugger, a fast assembler, and an extensive

graphics library.

Turbo C has been largely supplanted by Turbo C++, introduced

circa September, 1990 for both MS-DOS and MicrosoftWindows.

["Compiling the facts on C", Richard Hale Shaw, PC Magazine,

September 13, 1988, pages 115-183].

(1996-10-31)