was developed under contract by a company in San Diego, and was one of the first "true" compilers for C++ (until then, it was common to use pre-compilers that generated C code, ref. Cfront). Freeware release In 2006, Borland's successor, Embarcadero Technologies, re-released Turbo C and the MS-DOS versions of the Turbo C++ compilers as freeware. Reception BYTE in 1989 listed Turbo C and Turbo Pascal as among the "Distinction" winners of the BYTE Awards. Citing their user interface and continued emphasis on speed, the magazine stated that "for rapid prototyping there's not much better". See also Turbo Assembler Turbo Debugger References External links borland.com - Borland Developer Network Museum codegear.com - Turbo C++ version 1.01 borland.com - Turbo C 2.01 Free download from EDN computermuseum-muenchen.de - Computer Museum in Munich with a large collection of software, including Turbo C 1.0 ff 1987 software Borland software C (programming language) compilers DOS software