At 05:05 PM 2/18/2015, Ethan Dicks wrote: All true, but doesn't it make you wonder why Turbo Pascal was such a popular development environment for the PC for so long? Was it the sheer will power and marketing of Borland, or was it the volume of developers who didn't need intensive low-level I/O? By '85, there were several C compilers for the PC and I even remember using Gimpel C-terp, a C interpreter that made development and debugging easier. - John