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When the first version of Turbo Pascal appeared in 1983, the type of IDE which it used was relatively new. On its debut in the American market, Turbo Pascal retailed for $49.99 US. The integrated Pascal compiler also was of very good quality compared to other Pascal products and was affordable above all. The " Turbo" name alluded to its compilation speed.
In the early 1990s, it was used in several universities to teach the fundamental concepts of programming.
It is likely that Microsoft Pascal was dropped because of the competition provided by Turbo Pascal's good quality and low price. Another theory is that Borland made an agreement with MicrosoftMicrosoft Corporation , headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA, is the world's largest software company (with over 50,000 employees in various countries, as of May 2004). Microsoft develops, manufactures, licenses and supports a wide range of software to drop development of Turbo BASIC, a BASIC IDE that stems from Turbo Pascal, if Microsoft would stop developing Microsoft Pascal.
Over the years Borland enhanced not only the IDE but also the programming language, since version 5.5 it contained object oriented programming features. The last version of Turbo Pascal was called Borland Pascal 7 and contained an IDE and compilers for creating DOS, extended DOS and Windows 3.x programs.
By 1995, Borland had dropped Turbo Pascal and replaced it with the RAD environment DelphiDelphi is a programming language and software development environment. It is produced by Borland (known for a time as Inprise). The Delphi language, formerly known as Object Pascal ( Pascal with object-oriented extensions) originally targeted only Microso, which included the language Object Pascal. Native 32-bit Delphi versions still support the more portable Pascal enhancements (read: that are not 16-bit centric) of the earlier products including the earlier static object model.