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Borland Announces the Return of the Turbo Products, with Video 286

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Tuesday August 08, 2006 @03:47PM from the save-us-turboman dept.

Leonel writes "Borland Software's Developer Tools Group just announced the return of the Turbo line of products. With free and cheap versions, it's aimed at students, hobbyist developers, occupational developers and individual programming professionals. More information is available at the the Turbo Explorer website, including a video of the Adventures of TurboMan."

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How can I be funny? (Score:0, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday August 08, 2006 @03:50PM (#15869031)

How can I be funny on the internet?

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Re:How can I be funny? (Score:1, Funny)

by darth_MALL ( 657218 ) writes: on Tuesday August 08, 2006 @03:54PM (#15869060)

Make an obscure sexual reference to Bjarne Strousup.

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Hardware requirements? (Score:5, Funny)

by Rupert_Giles ( 992036 ) writes: on Tuesday August 08, 2006 @03:56PM (#15869079)

Do these still need two 5.25" floppy drives to run? I'm not sure I remember where mine are.

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Here we go again... (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday August 08, 2006 @04:00PM (#15869113)

TurboProducts return!

With 80% more standards non-compliance.

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TurboC (Score:5, Funny)

by WPIDalamar ( 122110 ) writes: on Tuesday August 08, 2006 @04:02PM (#15869133) Homepage

I learned to program on a dos version of TurboC ... To this day I still prefer the yellow on blue text :)

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Re:That's just wierd (Score:5, Funny)

by bwcarty ( 660606 ) writes: on Tuesday August 08, 2006 @04:10PM (#15869196)

Free things are ALWAYS good :)

Did you live in Troy [wikipedia.org] in a previous life?

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Re:That's just wierd (Score:5, Funny)

by Rob T Firefly ( 844560 ) writes: on Tuesday August 08, 2006 @04:17PM (#15869278) Homepage Journal

Last night, I was digging around on the Borland site to see if there was such a thing as this, and today they announce it. How's that for a co-incidence!
It's no coincidence. The web guy noticed your digging in the server logs, mumbled in dull surprise at the fact that anyone was still interested, and cut-and-pasted your activities in the logs a few hundred thousand times for a few giggles to break up the monotony.

This morning happened to be when the bosses glanced at the logs, and once they realized how "popular" this stuff seems to be, they knew beyond the shadow of a doubt that it's time for the return of Turbo.

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Re:How can I be funny? (Score:2, Funny)

by iced_773 ( 857608 ) writes: on Tuesday August 08, 2006 @04:50PM (#15869543)

Personally, I'd rather be Insightful, because Funny doesn't get you karma.

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Re:Filter them out. (Score:2, Funny)

by whatnow42 ( 994037 ) writes: on Tuesday August 08, 2006 @05:31PM (#15869816)

Your right, there is no room for a company that produces fast, native Windows applications any more. Let's all bloat our apps with .NET/Java/etc. Runtime "engines", "frameworks", "environments" etc. are THE way to go. Sheesh, nobody uses Windows anymore--well, except for 90% of the planet.

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Re:What age group? (Score:5, Funny)

by 0racle ( 667029 ) writes: on Tuesday August 08, 2006 @05:36PM (#15869873)

we are talking about college students, not elementary school, right?
What's the difference?

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Re:Countdown (Score:2, Funny)

by Bing Tsher E ( 943915 ) writes: on Tuesday August 08, 2006 @06:34PM (#15870259) Journal

It's the countdown to t_time overflow. (it's a 7-bit product)

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Re:Here we go again... (Score:1, Funny)

by Schmuckly_McDuckly ( 970699 ) writes: on Tuesday August 08, 2006 @07:34PM (#15870607) Homepage

Anything to free my mind from the abundance of software with "J" and "Py" prefixes......

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Re:That's just wierd (Score:3, Funny)

by R3d M3rcury ( 871886 ) writes: on Tuesday August 08, 2006 @08:50PM (#15870935) Journal

Beware of gifts bearing Greeks.

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Re:Sad, these are Borland's last ideas... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday August 09, 2006 @12:39AM (#15871638)

If Kylix would have been developed further, I would pay for it
So you're the one...

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