Harish,
I guessed as much, as it is old - say about 15 years. I'll await further comments and then decide what to do with it.
Patrick
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Borland Turbo C 2.0
I have a unused edition of Borland Turbo C 2.0 - with full manuals and so on. I've looked in Ebay and all I can see is C++ editions. Does anyone ever use such stuff (Borland Turbo C 2.0) these days?
Please note: This is NOT an advertisement to sell but a straightforward question regarding whether Borland Turbo C 2.0 is used by anyone these days.
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It might be usefull to learn C. I think it is better then miracle c, and I see students using miracle here...
Turbo C version 2.01 can be downloaded from here: http://bdn.borland.com/art
And of course http://www.craigslist.org/
Hi Patrick,
I've got a copy of Turbo C 2.0, too. I've also got a copy of TC 1.5 and several other Borland C/C++ compilers!
Occasionally, I still find a use for it, but that is pretty rare. It's usually when someone here on EE has a Turbo C question. Having a copy allows me to find and/or test a solution.
But unless you're really into DOS programming it's not much good to you. Well, Bill Gates might have use for it (after all, 640K should be enough memory for anyone), but he probably uses his own product(s). ;)
You might find it interesting to know that a lot of perfectly legal code in modern C won't compile in Turbo C. There are subtle difference in struct definitions that don't migrate easily. And of course, TC is an 8/16-bit compiler which runs a lot differently than code on todays 32/64-bit systems.
I'm a bit curious. How did you come to own a release copy of such an old compiler?
Kent
Kent,
I wrote a small application for a MSDOS based menu system which worked with either the mouse or the keyboard in Borland C and gave it to my boss as my leaving present. It worked well but as he developed all his CAD software in the then current MS version of C he tried to get a post-graduate to re-write it in MS C. I can only report that the post-grad never did re-write it as I think he must have been totally incompetent - I was only a Sales Exec and I only did it for fun and to meet a specific need.
Interestingly my boss gave me the Borland Turboc C 2.0 as a leaving present. I never used it as I reckoned it was time to move over to Windows programming - which I never came to terms with, even though I bought Visual C++ and book to go with. I found it very indirect by comparison to straight C with which I like being able to read and write directly to the half registers for the mouse - and so on. I did write some stuff in Visual C++ but was really trying to do something well beyond me in terms of logic. It was the old grid game of 5-in-a-row and I wanted to be able to play against the computer! I got about 80% of the way there but couldn't figure out all the logic. I finally gave up...
Patrick
Hi Patrick,
There's a world of difference between programming the logic and programming the display. :) I've always enjoyed the logic, but have absolutely no desire to program the human interface. Odd, huh?
I do have 1 application that I maintain in Turbo C. I used to work for a Lottery company. (They prefer the term "gaming", hehehe.....) As a security and cost cutting technology, several terminals are multidropped on the same phone line. My program takes control of COM1 and/or COM2 and pretends to be up to 32 proprietary terminals per COM device. This allows me to load test up to 64 terminals on different comm lines. Early versions of Windows (and the much slower hardware that it ran on) made it difficult to write/run a program that let me control the comm ports and execute in real time to emulate that many terminals. It's probably a piece of cake on modern Windows systems, but I've had no reason to change.
Kent
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by: mgh_mgharishPosted on 2006-01-08 at 08:32:24ID: 15642015
Hi Patrick, TC 2.0 is very rarely used. I have TC 3.0 and use it to test some basic stuff only. So I can say TC 2.0 is obsolete
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Harish