Robert S. Zale, usually called Bob Zale (1945 to 2012), designed and created BASIC/Z, the first interactive compiler for the CP/M and MDOS (Micropolis DOS) operating systems. Borland bought the full rights to BASIC/Z in 1987 and rebranded it Turbo BASIC. When Borland decided to abandon Turbo BASIC in late 1988 and early 1989, Zale bought back all the rights to the Turbo BASIC source code in 1989, renamed it PowerBASIC and set up PowerBASIC Inc. to continue its development and support. The company went on to produce BASIC compilers for MS-DOS and then for Windows. Zale died on November 6, 2012, and his wife Vivian Zale later announced that work on new compilers was continuing; in 2017 Drake Software acquired the PowerBASIC source code from the company.
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History, BASIC/Z for CP/M and MDOS
designed and created by Robert "Bob" S Zale (1945-2012)
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On November 6, 2012, Robert Zale died.
Lead, compilers by PowerBASIC Inc.
the brand of several commercial compilers by PowerBASIC Inc. that compiled a dialect of the BASIC programming language
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the brand of several commercial compilers by PowerBASIC Inc. that compiled a dialect of the BASIC programming language
In Field: Programming Language Theory, Lead, compilers of a BASIC dialect
the brand of several commercial compilers by PowerBASIC Inc. that compiled a dialect of the BASIC programming language
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