Steve Balmer was there as well, and was talking about the latest BASIC compiler software, the PDS (Professional Development System), which was an enhanced version of the QuickBasic compiler, with additional tools. Of course he was promoting the use of add in libraries to enhance the implementation of programs using the QuickBasic compiler. It pushed Microsoft to follow suit, and greatly improve their screen update routines as well, by directly updating the Video memory, rather than update it through the BIOS, which was what they were doing initially.Īs for Crescent software, Ethan Winer was on of the speakers in one of the meetings of a computer club meeting in the Washington DC area back in the late 80s. I had a friend whose work use Turbo Basic, as it was initially much faster for screen updates compared to the Microsoft Basic compilers of the time. I did have an early version of the Borland suite, with Turbo Basic, Turbo Pascal, Turbo C, Turbo Asm, but didn't do a lot of programming in any of those languages.
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