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by jim_lawless 657 days ago
At the time of the release of Turbo Pascal 3.x, the IDE's on the CP/M version and MS-DOS version were almost identical. I suspect that the author was using TP 4.x or later on MS-DOS.

Turbo Pascal on CP/M was a sweet spot among the development tools of the day. As the author describes, the IDE was very pleasant to use, compile-times were speedy, the generated code was compact, and the language implementation permitted a nice mix of high-level constructs with low-level access.
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kjs3 657 days ago
I think there's a lot of us that got spoiled by the TP IDE. It was night and day more productive than the contemporary environments (particularly on CP/M). Other Pascal (and other) compilers might have been 'better' in some ways, but noone really had the edit->compile->fix workflow in one mostly seemless, easy to use package.
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pamoroso 657 days ago
Author here. Yes, on MS-DOS I used Turbo Pascal versions later than 4.
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