<s>
Turbo	B-Application
C	I-Application
is	O
a	O
discontinued	O
integrated	B-Application
development	I-Application
environment	I-Application
(	O
IDE	B-Application
)	O
and	O
compiler	B-Language
for	O
the	O
C	B-Language
programming	I-Language
language	I-Language
from	O
Borland	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
First	O
introduced	O
in	O
1987	O
,	O
it	O
was	O
noted	O
for	O
its	O
integrated	B-Application
development	I-Application
environment	I-Application
,	O
small	O
size	O
,	O
fast	O
compile	B-Language
speed	O
,	O
comprehensive	O
manuals	O
and	O
low	O
price	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
May	O
1990	O
,	O
Borland	O
replaced	O
Turbo	B-Application
C	I-Application
with	O
Turbo	B-Application
C++	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
the	O
early	O
1980s	O
,	O
Borland	O
enjoyed	O
considerable	O
success	O
with	O
their	O
Turbo	B-Application
Pascal	I-Application
product	O
and	O
it	O
became	O
a	O
popular	O
choice	O
when	O
developing	O
applications	O
for	O
the	O
PC	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Borland	O
followed	O
up	O
that	O
success	O
by	O
releasing	O
Turbo	B-Language
Basic	I-Language
,	O
Turbo	B-Application
Prolog	I-Application
,	O
and	O
in	O
1987	O
,	O
Turbo	B-Application
C	I-Application
.	O
Turbo	B-Application
C	I-Application
has	O
similar	O
properties	O
to	O
Turbo	B-Application
Pascal	I-Application
:	O
an	O
integrated	B-Application
development	I-Application
environment	I-Application
,	O
a	O
fast	O
compiler	B-Language
(	O
though	O
not	O
near	O
the	O
speed	O
of	O
Turbo	B-Application
Pascal	I-Application
)	O
,	O
a	O
good	O
editor	O
,	O
and	O
a	O
competitive	O
price	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
While	O
Turbo	B-Application
Pascal	I-Application
was	O
successful	O
with	O
hobbyists	O
and	O
schools	O
as	O
well	O
as	O
professional	O
programmers	O
,	O
Turbo	B-Application
C	I-Application
competed	O
with	O
other	O
professional	O
programming	O
tools	O
,	O
such	O
as	O
Microsoft	O
C	B-Language
,	O
Lattice	B-Device
C	I-Device
,	O
and	O
Watcom	B-Application
C	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Version	O
1.0	O
(	O
May	O
13	O
,	O
1987	O
)	O
offered	O
the	O
first	O
integrated	B-Application
development	I-Application
environment	I-Application
for	O
C	B-Language
on	O
IBM	B-Device
PCs	I-Device
.	O
</s>
<s>
Like	O
many	O
Borland	O
products	O
of	O
the	O
time	O
,	O
the	O
software	O
was	O
bought	O
from	O
another	O
company	O
(	O
in	O
this	O
case	O
Wizard	O
C	B-Language
by	O
Bob	O
Jervis	O
)	O
,	O
and	O
branded	O
with	O
the	O
"	O
Turbo	O
"	O
name	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
allowed	O
inline	B-Language
assembly	I-Language
with	O
full	O
access	O
to	O
C	B-Language
symbolic	O
names	O
and	O
structures	O
,	O
supported	O
all	O
memory	O
models	O
,	O
and	O
offered	O
optimizations	O
for	O
speed	O
,	O
size	O
,	O
constant	O
folding	O
,	O
and	O
jump	O
elimination	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
was	O
shipped	O
on	O
five	O
360	O
KB	O
diskettes	B-Device
of	O
uncompressed	O
files	O
,	O
and	O
came	O
with	O
sample	O
C	B-Language
programs	I-Language
,	O
including	O
a	O
stripped	O
down	O
spreadsheet	O
called	O
mcalc	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Version	O
2.0	O
(	O
late	O
1988	O
)	O
featured	O
the	O
first	O
"	O
blue	O
screen	O
"	O
version	O
,	O
which	O
would	O
be	O
typical	O
of	O
all	O
future	O
Borland	O
releases	O
for	O
MS-DOS	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
was	O
also	O
available	O
bundled	O
with	O
Turbo	B-Application
Assembler	I-Application
and	O
Turbo	B-Application
Debugger	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Turbo	B-Application
C	I-Application
2.0	O
was	O
also	O
released	O
(	O
in	O
Germany	O
only	O
)	O
for	O
the	O
Atari	B-Device
ST	I-Device
;	O
the	O
program	O
was	O
not	O
maintained	O
by	O
Borland	O
,	O
but	O
sold	O
and	O
renamed	O
PureC	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
version	O
introduced	O
the	O
<graphics.h>	O
header	O
file	O
,	O
which	O
provided	O
the	O
Borland	B-Language
Graphics	I-Language
Interface	I-Language
already	O
included	O
in	O
Turbo	B-Application
Pascal	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
With	O
the	O
release	O
of	O
Turbo	B-Application
C++	I-Application
1.0	O
(	O
in	O
1990	O
)	O
,	O
the	O
two	O
products	O
were	O
folded	O
into	O
one	O
and	O
the	O
name	O
"	O
Turbo	B-Application
C	I-Application
"	O
was	O
discontinued	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
C++	O
compiler	B-Language
was	O
developed	O
under	O
contract	O
by	O
a	O
company	O
in	O
San	O
Diego	O
,	O
and	O
was	O
one	O
of	O
the	O
first	O
"	O
true	O
"	O
compilers	B-Language
for	O
C++	O
(	O
until	O
then	O
,	O
it	O
was	O
common	O
to	O
use	O
pre-compilers	O
that	O
generated	O
C	B-Language
code	O
,	O
ref	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Cfront	B-Device
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2006	O
,	O
Borland	O
's	O
successor	O
,	O
Embarcadero	O
Technologies	O
,	O
re-released	O
Turbo	B-Application
C	I-Application
and	O
the	O
MS-DOS	B-Application
versions	O
of	O
the	O
Turbo	B-Application
C++	I-Application
compilers	B-Language
as	O
freeware	B-License
.	O
</s>
<s>
BYTE	B-Application
in	O
1989	O
listed	O
Turbo	B-Application
C	I-Application
and	O
Turbo	B-Application
Pascal	I-Application
as	O
among	O
the	O
"	O
Distinction	O
"	O
winners	O
of	O
the	O
BYTE	B-Application
Awards	O
.	O
</s>
