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Borland Announces the Return of the Turbo Products, with Video

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the save-us-turboman dept.

Leonel writes "Borland Software's Developer Tools Group just announced the return of the Turbo line of products. With free and cheap versions, it's aimed at students, hobbyist developers, occupational developers and individual programming professionals. More information is available at the the Turbo Explorer website, including a video of the Adventures of TurboMan."

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  1. Hardware requirements? by Rupert_Giles · · Score: 5, Funny

    Do these still need two 5.25" floppy drives to run? I'm not sure I remember where mine are.

  2. Here we go again... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    TurboProducts return!

    With 80% more standards non-compliance.

  3. TurboC by WPIDalamar · · Score: 4, Funny

    I learned to program on a dos version of TurboC ... To this day I still prefer the yellow on blue text :)

  4. Re:That's just wierd by bwcarty · · Score: 5, Funny

    Free things are ALWAYS good :)

    Did you live in Troy in a previous life?

  5. Re:That's just wierd by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 4, Funny
    Last night, I was digging around on the Borland site to see if there was such a thing as this, and today they announce it. How's that for a co-incidence!
    It's no coincidence. The web guy noticed your digging in the server logs, mumbled in dull surprise at the fact that anyone was still interested, and cut-and-pasted your activities in the logs a few hundred thousand times for a few giggles to break up the monotony.

    This morning happened to be when the bosses glanced at the logs, and once they realized how "popular" this stuff seems to be, they knew beyond the shadow of a doubt that it's time for the return of Turbo.
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  6. Re:How can I be funny? by iced_773 · · Score: 2, Funny


    Personally, I'd rather be Insightful, because Funny doesn't get you karma.

  7. Re:Filter them out. by whatnow42 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Your right, there is no room for a company that produces fast, native Windows applications any more. Let's all bloat our apps with .NET/Java/etc. Runtime "engines", "frameworks", "environments" etc. are THE way to go. Sheesh, nobody uses Windows anymore--well, except for 90% of the planet.

  8. Re:What age group? by 0racle · · Score: 4, Funny
    we are talking about college students, not elementary school, right?
    What's the difference?
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    "I use a Mac because I'm just better than you are."
  9. Re:Countdown by Bing+Tsher+E · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's the countdown to t_time overflow. (it's a 7-bit product)

  10. Re:That's just wierd by R3d+M3rcury · · Score: 2, Funny

    Beware of gifts bearing Greeks.