PowerBASIC, formerly Turbo BASIC, was the brand of several commercial compilers from PowerBASIC Inc. that compiled a dialect of the BASIC programming language, with both MS-DOS and Windows versions. The compiler began as BASIC/Z, written by Robert Zale for CP/M, was bought by Borland in 1987 and sold as Turbo Basic, and was bought back by Zale in 1989 and renamed PowerBASIC. PowerBASIC 2.0 appeared in May 1990, and the DOS line ended with release 3.5 in 1997. Its programs are self-contained and need no runtime file, since the compilers produce native executables, 16-bit for DOS and 32-bit for Windows. Zale died in 2012, development stopped after version 10.04 in 2011, and Drake Software acquired the source code in 2017.
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In May 1990, PowerBASIC 2.0 was published by Spectra Publishing
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PowerBASIC, formerly Turbo BASIC, was the brand of several commercial compilers by PowerBASIC Inc. that compiled a dialect of the BASIC programming language.
History, PowerBASIC for DOS, invented by company
set up PowerBASIC Inc. to continue further development and support
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PowerBASIC, formerly Turbo BASIC, was the brand of several commercial compilers by PowerBASIC Inc.
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