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- TURBO PASCAL is a product of Borland International. The programs on this disk
- use many of its extended features, so they are probably not compilable by some
- other PASCALs. However, TURBO only costs $50, so if you are just dying to
- improve some of these programs, the cost is within reach.
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- The main differences between TURBO and other PASCALs is one of efficiency.
- Programs compile very fast, in just one pass. Execution time for compiled
- programs is also good. The editor comes as a WORDSTAR clone, but you can
- completely change it at will. If a program being compiled to memory fails,
- you are dumped back into the editor at the exact spot the error occurred.
- Also, the magazines report that TURBO-compiled programs generally take up
- less disk space.
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- The main disadvantage of TURBO, if it is one, is that it generates ".COM"
- files only. Thus the code cannot exceed 64K. However, unless you are doing
- some kind of big project, it's HARD to come up with 64K. If you do, CHAINing
- and OVERLAYS are built in.
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