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1. www.codeproject.com › Articles › 5347103BASIC is Not Dead. Time to Erase the Myths about Basic.

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   Nov 15, 2022 · Borland had their highly popular Turbo Pascal which Microsoft noticed. Borland wanted to add a Basic to the Turbo family of Turbo Pascal and Turbo C. They chose to buy out Bob Zales compiler and renamed it Turbo Basic. Turbo Basic really gave Microsoft a “run for their money” so to speak back then. It was a professional level compiler just ...

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2. hackaday.com › 2023/09/17 › the-end-of-basicThe End Of Basic? - Hackaday

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   Sep 17, 2023 · That’s why BASIC dialects like Turbo Basic and Quick Basic were so popular in the late 80s, the 90s and, even, early 2000s. They could use line numbers, if needed.

3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Turbo-Basic_XLTurbo-BASIC XL - Wikipedia

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   Turbo-BASIC XL is an enhanced version of the BASIC programming language for Atari 8-bit computers. It is a compatible superset of the Atari BASIC that shipped with the Atari 8-bit systems. Turbo-Basic XL was developed by Frank Ostrowski and published in the December 1985 issue of German computer magazine Happy Computer.

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5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › PowerBASICPowerBASIC - Wikipedia

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   Turbo Basic. Borland's Turbo Basic contains extensions to classic BASIC (without breaking compatibility), such as a drawing API and mouse access. Unlike most BASIC implementations of its time, Turbo Basic was a full compiler which generated native code for MS-DOS.

6. betanews.com › 2012/12/02 › remembering-the-creatorRemembering the creator of Turbo Basic - BetaNews

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   Dec 2, 2012 · BASIC programmers who have been around awhile likely remember Borland Internationals Turbo Basic. What few may realize though is that Borland did not create Turbo Basic. Bob Zale did.

7. www.goto10retro.com › p › frank-ostrowski-and-theFrank Ostrowski and the Best BASICs - by Paul Lefebvre

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   Oct 9, 2023 · GFA BASIC was first released in 1986, so not too long after Turbo-BASIC XL. By 1987 it started getting very popular on the Atari ST in the US. The first version in the US had a poorly translated manual, but MichTron (the US distributed) did get a better manual out.

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   Does Turbo Basic still exist?

   • Sadly in 2012 Bob Zale, the creator of Turbo Basic and Powerbasic died. This time, this professional programming language nearly died with him. The community of users kept PowerBasic alive until it was eventually sold to its current owner Drake Software. Yes, professional level Basic still lives. XOJO’s version of Basic is continuing to grow.

   BASIC is Not Dead. Time to Erase the Myths about Basic

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   Why is Turbo-BASIC so popular?

   • The most notable feature of Turbo-Basic was its dramatically improved speed; an unmodified Atari BASIC program loaded into Turbo-Basic would normally run three to five times faster, and the speed advantage improved as the program size grew. This was due largely to a series of improvements on well-known problems in the original Atari BASIC code.

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   Did Borland create Turbo Basic?

   • What few may realize though is that Borland did not create Turbo Basic. Bob Zale did. They purchased the rights to his compiler, which was derived from his previous compiler, Basic/Z and named it Turbo Basic. Borland eventually left the compiler market and Turbo Basic was one of the first of their languages to go.

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   Who invented Turbo Basic?

   • Turbo Basic was originally created by Robert "Bob" Zale (1945–2012) and bought from him by Borland. When Borland decided to stop publishing it (1989), Zale bought it back from them, renamed it PowerBASIC and set up PowerBASIC Inc. to continue support and development of it; it was later called PBDOS.

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9. retrocomputing.stackexchange.com › questions › 6717history - What caused the downfall of Pascal ...

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   Jun 14, 2018 · From 1985 to 1990 Borland's Turbo Pascal was at least as popular as C for DOS systems. Turbo Pascal was especially popular because of it's ground breaking BGI graphics interface while C was stalled in standardization committees.