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The New Executable (NE) format used by 16-bit Windows and OS/2, and the multitasking ("European") MS-DOS 4, contains a "target operating system" field at byte offset 36h from the ...
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Everybody remembers the wonderful DOS-pop up Sidekick, which provided a calculator, file manager, and ASCII table; plus other stuff I never used. One reason it was wonderful is that it was always ...
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I would guess the compiler was primarily a modification of Borland's Turbo Pascal, while the Integrated Development Environment and Visual Component Library required a lot more development from ...
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From 1985 to 1990 Borland's Turbo Pascal was at least as popular as C for DOS systems. Turbo Pascal was especially popular because of it's ground breaking BGI graphics interface while C was stalled in ...
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