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On 28/05/2021 14:28, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

> Otherwise yes, it was pretty fast, much faster than MS-DOS C/C++ 

Apparently, they were fast because the Turbo compilers didn't do 
optimisations due to the limitations of the machines.

> compilers of the time, Borland's own C++ including.
>