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I first used Turbo Pascal in a high school programming class. I remember our teacher saying: "Make it work first, then you can make it look pretty."

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It's being used to this day (or until very recently, at least) in some countries, generally running under dosbox because DOS software can no longer run natively in modern PC OS's.

FreeDOS exists.. https://freedos.org/

That can no longer run on many modern computers as the backwards-compatible BIOS is phased out, not to mention many computers switching to ARM.

You can still run it on qemu (even on ARM).

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