The Origin of Windows, by the product manager who shipped Windows 1.0 (2010)

30 years ago and Borland had a compiled language that was almost as fast as working with an interpreted language. Compile and link in seconds on 8Mhz machines:

"At $50 for the Borland product vs. the Microsoft $400 compiler, it was a bit like comparing a VW to a Porsche. But while Turbo Pascal was lighter weight for serious development, it was almost as quick for programming and debugging as Microsoft’s BASIC interpreters."

Found this article where the guy claims that the technology was folded into Delphi and it was probably about 1 million lines per minute on much faster hardware:

http://prog21.dadgum.com/47.html

"So, in January of 1985 I transitioned over the Windows team"

"By November, we had finished testing and come up with a solid release."

Windows was announced in November of 1983.

I guess what I am saying is that for Windows 1.0, this guy was most likely not that instrumental.

Date: 2010