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adrian_b 4 hours ago

The earlier Microsoft compilers included since 1985 the debugger CodeView, which could do all that and much more.

Around 1990, the development tools offered by Borland and Microsoft for C and C++ were pretty much equivalent and they both were quite good.

While the Borland languages were like "Turbo-X", the Microsoft languages were like "Quick-X".

The greatest difference between the commercial software available at that time and what exists today is that everything was accompanied by a set of high quality manuals that could teach you anything that one would want to know. Nowadays the quality of technical documentation is usually much worse.

pjmlp 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I think there was a certain irony, that Borland gave up on Turbo BASIC, while Microsoft gave up on Quick Pascal.