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Turbo Pascal 6.0 (vs. others) (Developers)

posted by rr  , Berlin, Germany, 21.02.2020, 22:13

> > > rr's UPXDUMP was at least compatible with TP55, but I think he calls
> > > TP7/BP7 the "best ever" (or was it TP6? Meh, close enough).
> >
> > It was (and still is) TP6.
> >
> > But maybe I'm a little biased, because that's the version I started with
> in
> > the 1990s. And I couldn't afford TP7 from my apprenticeship salary.
>
> It's very confusing. There are too many competing versions. I assume you
> mean TP 6.0 Professional. How much was TP7, comparatively? You mean TP 7.01
> or "Borland Pascal 7 with Objects" (DOS and Windows)? (Some old versions
> are still around for sale on EMSPS or eBay.)

I mean TP 6.01 BHV edition: https://m.ebay.de/itm/Software-Turbo-Pascal-6-0-auf-3-Disketten-mit-Handbuch-bhv/352881771160
IIRC, it was available for either 49 or 69 DEM at that time.
(I bought full TP6 Prof. much later at eBay for only a few bucks, but never used it. I just wanted to save it from the dump.)

And I didn't want to pay another 139 (?) DEM only for syntax highlighting in TP7.

> I stumbled upon the release announcement blurb online recently but can't
> find it now. TP 5.5 freeware lacks Turbo Debugger 1.5 and Turbo Assembler
> 1.0 (one-pass only?) that were in Professional. Apparently, in 1989
> dollars, that was $150 (or $250 for Pro), which is worth twice that now,
> due to inflation. I know TP6 added BASM for inline, so maybe that means
> lacking TASM 2.0 for hobby users wasn't as crucial. (Heck, just use DEBUG
> and Inline(...) for 5.5. Or NASM or A86, which both claim to somehow
> work.)

TP6 and TP7 both didn't have TD and TASM.
At that time (around 1995?) I just made my first steps in Internet (CompuServe). I had no idea about x86 assembly, inline() or A86.

> Haven't you tried FPC's i8086-msdos (ppcross8086)?

No. I don't code very much and only very small things. Don't need an X-megabyte-large compiler. No offense, marcov.

> I can't think of any
> other obvious, major reason to exclusively stick to TP other than
> familiarity, strict compatibility, 16-bit hosting, etc.

You forgot nostalgia.

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