Borland first come to fame as the vendor of Turbo Pascal, an MS-DOS product that was one of the first IDEs, including a WordStar compatible editor, a Pascal compiler, and a debugger in an integrated product. They followed Turbo Pascal with Turbo C, Turbo Basic, and Turbo Prolog, as well as SideKick, an MS-DOS TSR that included a notepad and several other functions. |
Borland first came to fame as the vendor of Turbo Pascal, an MS-DOS product that was one of the first IDEs, including a WordStar compatible editor, a Pascal compiler, and a debugger in an integrated product. They followed Turbo Pascal with Turbo C, Turbo Basic, and Turbo Prolog, as well as Sidekick, an MS-DOS TSR that included a notepad and several other functions. |
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Homepage: http://www.borland.com
Borland first came to fame as the vendor of Turbo Pascal, an MS-DOS product that was one of the first IDEs, including a WordStar compatible editor, a Pascal compiler, and a debugger in an integrated product. They followed Turbo Pascal with Turbo C, Turbo Basic, and Turbo Prolog, as well as Sidekick, an MS-DOS TSR that included a notepad and several other functions.
Borland spun off the compiler and IDE business as Codegear, to concentrate on Application Lifecycle Management solutions. Codegear has recently become a unit of Embarcadero Technologies.
On May 6th, 2009, Borland announced an agreement to be acquired by Micro Focus International, plc.
It has managed to kill both products.
The late SF writer Jack Chalker wrote 26 novels using Final Word, was deeply unhappy about what Borland did, and at one point had plans to try to buy the rights from Borland and put it back out in the classic form he used. -- DMcCunney