>Borland also got upset when their number one compiler architect (Anders Neilson? appologies in advance if incorrect) jumped ship to Microsoft :-), he and another (forget who?) wrote Turbo Pascal (in assembler!).

They weren't too happy when the Delphi guy went to MS.

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>The first version of Turbo C was written by Robert Jarvis (Yep, 1 man) although I read a confilicting article that said Borland bought it from Whitesmiths?

I don't know. I don't use C/C++ and am pretty much unfamiliar with product history here.