Editing Turbo C (section)

==Version history==
'''Version 1.0''' (May 13, 1987) offered the first integrated development environment for C on [[IBM PC]]s. Like many Borland products of the time, the software was bought from another company (in this case '''Wizard C compiler''' by Bob Jervis<ref>[https://groups.google.com/d/msg/borland.public.delphi.non-technical/QMdz7BbHDVg/T8bGnRFje3cJ Borland Backgrounder], 2/8/99</ref>), and branded with the "Turbo" name. It ran in {{nowrap|384 kB}} of memory. It allowed [[inline assembly]] with full access to C symbolic names and structures, supported all memory models, and offered optimizations for speed, size, [[constant folding]], and jump elimination.<ref name="foldoc turboc">{{cite web|url=http://foldoc.org/Turbo+C |title=Computing Dictionary |website=Foldoc.org |access-date=2022-09-26}}</ref>

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'''Version 1.5''' (January 1988) was an incremental improvement over version 1.0. It included more sample programs, improved manuals and bug fixes. It was shipped on five 360 KB [[diskette]]s of uncompressed files, and came with sample C programs, including a stripped down spreadsheet called [[mcalc]]. This version introduced the <conio.h> header file (which provided fast, PC-specific console I/O routines).

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'''Version 2.0''' (late 1988) featured the first "blue screen" version, which would be typical of all future Borland releases for [[MS-DOS]]. It was also available bundled with [[Turbo Assembler]] and [[Turbo Debugger]]. Turbo C 2.0 was also released (in [[Germany]] only) for the [[Atari ST]]; the program was not maintained by Borland, but sold and renamed PureC. This version introduced the <graphics.h> header file, which provided the [[Borland Graphics Interface]] already included in [[Turbo Pascal]]. 

With the release of [[Turbo C++]] 1.0 (in 1990), the two products were folded into one and the name "Turbo C" was discontinued. The C++ compiler was developed under contract by a company in San Diego, and was one of the first "true" compilers for C++ (until then, it was common to use pre-compilers that generated C code, ref. [[Cfront]]).