Hello together!

On the German news site Heise (for those that can read German: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/30-Jahre-Turbo-Pascal-Integrierter-Ansatz-revolutionierte-die-Softwareentwicklung-2050920.html ) I've just read that Turbo Pascal was released today on the 20th November 30 years ago. In that sense Happy Birthday! And here is a link to a Turbo Pascal 1.0 download on the Embarcadero site: http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/20693

Regards,
Sven

Sven Barth wrote

Turbo Pascal was released today on the 20th November 30 years ago.

Is this correct for all datediff-functions? ;-)

It won't be correct if you base years on the orbit period of Mars or some other celestial body except Trojans on Earth's orbit... besides that I've completely given up on the datediff-thread :P

Regards,
Sven

How time flies (and let's keep the DateDiff thread out of this). I'm fairly sure that I had a dozen or so copies of v1, running on CP/M-86 (actually CCP/M-86 networked) systems, each with 128Kb.

Allowing that early Turbo Pascal came in something like eight variants (CP/M, CP/M-86, PC-DOS and MS-DOS, each with floating- or fixed-point maths) I'm not sure that Borpricocadero has progressed very far in the multiplatform game, and allowing that even a university department or a cash-strapped student could afford it they definitely haven't come very far with their cost-effectiveness.

It (version 6) still is used for expensive embedded equipment! I sure do enjoy using it!