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by sedachv 3063 days ago
None of that is true at all. Turbo Pascal was hugely popular on DOS in the 1980s into the early 1990s. It wasn't until Windows 3.1 that Turbo Pascal really started losing market share to C. You are also completely forgetting about Apple. IBM PC compatibles did not even pass 50% market share until 1986.