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by clownvorld 1160 days ago
> I very much preferred Borland from my days in Turbo Pascal and Turbo C++

Turbo Pascal was stunning for its time. A fully functional editor and fast compiler operating from a single 5.25 floppy, which occupied one of the two A/B drives on my university's PCs before hard disks were affordable.

But I have to admit OS/2 felt more like the "adult" OS compared with Windows. To be fair Windows had to load on top of DOS, so it didn't have the luxury of using the PC to its full extent. But still.