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Turbo C++ for Windows 3.1, released in 1993, already had support for templates in its initial design form.

Borland C++ 2.0, or 3.0, rewrote BIDS from preprocessor magic into templates.

CSet++ for OS/2, also early 1990s also offered template based collections.

By 1996, MFC introduced template based collection classes as well.