DOS ain't dead

Hi,

I'm new to the forum. Been lurking for a while - along with FreeDOS groups. Keen to avoid FB hence looking for proper discussion forums.

Long time user of DOS and still my fav OS and environment. Still keep a DOS machine running. First PC wa an XT clone in 84 and many since. Now macOS but DOS runs in VM and on an older DOS machine. A little Windows (mainly earlier variants).

I used PC mainly for programming (recreation and work). A lot of old code on discs and hope to resurrect a lot (old PC still reads and writes the up to 35 year old discs!). Languages of choice always ASM and C and I was a Borland fan - turbo C 2 remains by panacea of IDE and editor (though I use VIM and terminal as daily driver more through acceptance than choice as no decent WS and Borland IDE clone for unix).

I have some manuals and some PDF of Borland tools. I only have reference manual for Turbo C 2. Would anyone have a link, pointer or willing to share full manual set for Borland Turbo C 2?

Hope to contribute a little around here and to FreeDOS. Just starting slowly while I find my feet - and gain a little confidence!

> I'm new to the forum. Been lurking for a while - along with FreeDOS groups.
> Keen to avoid FB hence looking for proper discussion forums.

Welcome to the show!
I moved your post to the "User Introductions" category. You're the first, who posted an intro.

> Long time user of DOS and still my fav OS and environment. Still keep a DOS
> machine running. First PC wa an XT clone in 84 and many since. Now macOS
> but DOS runs in VM and on an older DOS machine. A little Windows (mainly
> earlier variants).

I have some DOS VMs too, but on Linux Mint MATE. Also a Windows XP VM migrated from a physical machine recently. I have some Atari Portfolios, Highscreen Handy Organizers, and an AMD K6-2 desktop PC sitting in my wardrobe. At work we use Windows 10.

> I used PC mainly for programming (recreation and work). A lot of old code
> on discs and hope to resurrect a lot (old PC still reads and writes the up
> to 35 year old discs!). Languages of choice always ASM and C and I was a

That sounds interesting. Feel free to share some of your code with use. (Although I prefer Turbo Pascal.)

> Borland fan - turbo C 2 remains by panacea of IDE and editor (though I use
> VIM and terminal as daily driver more through acceptance than choice as no
> decent WS and Borland IDE clone for unix).
>
> I have some manuals and some PDF of Borland tools. I only have reference
> manual for Turbo C 2. Would anyone have a link, pointer or willing to share
> full manual set for Borland Turbo C 2?

No idea, sorry.

> Hope to contribute a little around here and to FreeDOS. Just starting
> slowly while I find my feet - and gain a little confidence!

As I already said: You're welcome!

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Hello agregson, and welcome,

> I have some manuals and some PDF of Borland tools. I only have reference
> manual for Turbo C 2. Would anyone have a link, pointer or willing to share
> full manual set for Borland Turbo C 2?

You might have some luck with the bitsavers collection on archive.org.

I am currently only using BC++2 Library Reference as a guide for coding my libi86, but the collection also has documents beyond that.

Thank you!

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> Hello agregson, and welcome,
>
> > I have some manuals and some PDF of Borland tools. I only have reference
> > manual for Turbo C 2. Would anyone have a link, pointer or willing to
> share
> > full manual set for Borland Turbo C 2?
>
> You might have some luck with the
> bitsavers collection on
> archive.org.

Yep... it's there in several different formats including TXT & PDF :)

https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_borlandturReferenceGuide1988_19310204

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