>Yes, Turbo Pascal came from Borland.
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>At the time Borland released Turbo Pascal, the major C-compilers were Microsoft and Watcom (and a few others). They were quite expensive, few had IDEs, and they didn't compile very fast.
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>I taught myself C in the year before Borland released Turbo-C, so I was ready for a development experience beyond what Microsoft C had. (At the time, Microsoft had QuickBasic 2.0 with a nice IDE, but they hadn't moved that IDE to C until after Borland released Turbo C)
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>The first release of Turbo-C was like a jackrabbit when it came to compile speeds (though it didn't offer every code optimization that MS and Watcom offered). After a few years, it became obviously that Borland influenced MS. That's why I wish they were still around.

At the time I was using Turbo Pascal (which I absolutely loved) and Pascal VS (IBM 360 mainframe) I was using Zortech as my C compiler, which I really liked, I just googled it and apparently they were very small :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zortech, how the heck did I end up wit it?? I do not know, my only guess is that my dislike of Microsoft forced me to look for an alternative and voila! :)