Anders Hejlsberg

So that was like how you could go to the line where the error had occurred.

Do you know what I mean?

It's not like we had like line maps or debuggers or any of that stuff.

We just had the compiler and it was just easy to make it stop at a certain address, you know, in the object output and then

show you where it was in the source code.

It was faster.

It was smaller.

It was more interactive.

And it was also cheaper.

So it was like 10 times better at a tenth of the price of the competition, right?

Compilers back then used to cost $500 and they were just compilers.

And then you had to have an editor and blah, blah, blah.

And it was like this whole long-winded cycle of inserting different disks with compiler pass one and two and what have you.

And here was this thing that just like made it all go away and you could get it for $49.95.

And for $49.95, I mean, heck, that was worth it just to get the manuals that came with it, right?

I mean, so...

So there was very little piracy because it was so cheap.

Although speaking of piracy, we always had the joke about the Russian site license, how we sold one copy to Russia.

The big thing that happened there between Turbo Pascal and Delphi was the advent of the graphical user interface, right?

We switched from running DOS in text mode to running Windows in...