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
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
["Compiling the facts on C", Richard Hale Shaw, PC Magazine,
September 13, 1988, pages 115-183].
(1996-10-31)