Turbo C Ide
Turbo C Ide
Turbo C
is a popular version of the C programming language, designed for IBM personal computers and compatibles.
Turbo C package contains two The interrelated sets of tools the LANGUAGE and the DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT
The C language
provides the operations, instructions, and commands that you use to build your own programs.
was introduced in 1987 and was noted for its IDE, small size, speed, manuals and low price.
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Version History
VERSION 1.0
o The first integrated edit-compile-run development environment for C on IBM PCs developed on May 13, 1987. It was bought from another company and branded with the Turbo name, as Wizard C by Bob Jervis. It was known as Turbo Pascal, at this time it did not have pull-down menus. It can run in 387KB of memory and allows inline assembly. o
VERSION 1.5
o It has more sample programs, improved manuals and bug fixes developed on January 1988. It was introduced on five 360KB diskettes of uncompressed files with sample C programs, including mcalc (stripped down spreadsheet). This version uses , a header file that provide fast PC-specific console I/O routines
VERSION 2.0
o The first blue screen version released by American in late 1988. The American release did not have Turbo Assembler or a separate debugger. It was sold together as professional suite of tools which includes Turbo C, Asm, and Debugger. Another release featured Turbo Debugger, Turbo Assembler and graphics library. o Please take note that the name Turbo C was used after version 2.0, it is because Turbo C and Turbo C++ (1990) were folded into a single product. The next version was named Borland C++ eventually reappearing as Turbo C++ 3.0. There was never a 2.0 of the Turbo C+ + product series.
Main Menu Editor Status Line and Edit Window Message Window Hot Keys
MAIN MENU
The main menu contents or options instructs Turbo C to do something as indicated in the list of menu.
Editor status line and edit window is the place in Turbo C where you type your program and where you see the current line and column of the text you typed.
MESSAGE WINDOW
Message Window is located beneath the middle of edit window and hotkeys. It is used to displays various compiler or linker messages.
HOT KEYS
Hot keys is located at the bottom of the Turbo C's opening screen. It refers to shortcut or shorthand for selecting a menu. Two sets of hotkeys are available: the normal and the alternate set.