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   From: ted@loft.tnolan.com   
      
   In article ,   
   rbowman   wrote:   
   >On Thu, 1 Jan 2026 23:54:37 -0000 (UTC), Waldek Hebisch wrote:   
   >   
   >> IMO biggest drawback of Turbo Pascal was poor speed of generated code   
   >> (and size too).  For me deal breaker was fact that Turbo Pascal was   
   >> 16-bit and tied to DOS.  DJGCC gave me 32-bit integers and slightly   
   >> later I switched to Linux, so Turbo Pascal was not longer relevant for   
   >> me.  But if you were programming 16-bit DOS and did not mind poor speed   
   >> of generated code, than IMO Turbo Pascal was quite decent programming   
   >> language, quite competitive in expressivity to C.   
   >   
   >I never used the DOS TurboPascal, only the CP/M version. I used the BDS C   
   >subset compiler on CP/M and moved to DJGPP eventually.   
   >   
      
   Turbo Pascal for CP/M-86 could access the graphics hardware on the DEC Rainbow.   
   A niche to be sure, but one my CSCI graphics class did its projects in.   
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