A developer retrospective examines Borland's Turbo Pascal 7, also called Turbo Pascal for Windows 1.5, describing it as the final and most advanced release in the Turbo Pascal line before Borland moved on to Delphi. The piece recalls the product's integrated source-level debugging, its affordable 'book licensing' model with no copy protection, and its use for building real applications like medical imaging software on Windows 3.1.
kevinboone.me
· 2026-11-07
Turbo Basic began as Bob Zale's BASIC/Z, the first interactive compiler for CP/M, before Borland International acquired it and released it for MS-DOS in 1987. Borland sold it for only a couple of years before discontinuing it, after which Zale bought back the rights and continued development under the name PowerBASIC. Unlike interpreters such as GWBASIC, Turbo Basic compiled code, removed the 64KB file-size limit, and offered an integrated edit-compile-run development environment.
dosdays.co.uk
· 2026-10-05
The Defense Department announced a targeted legal waiver on September 14 allowing current and former service members, civilian staff and contractors to share classified UAP-related information with the White House-directed PURSUE program without facing civil or administrative penalties for breaching nondisclosure agreements. The waiver only applies to communications with PURSUE, not to Congress, the press or the public, and it does not address potential criminal liability under laws like the Espionage Act.
wired.com
· 2026-09-17
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