Date   : Mon, 24 Oct 1988 01:17:47 GMT
From   : tetra!budden@nosc.mil (Rex A. Buddenberg)
Subject: CP/M C Compilers

Not so, Ralph.

Borland started out as Turbo-Pascal for CPM machines -- a product
looking for a company.  Since Philippe Kahn, at the time an illegal
alien, couldn't get anyone else to market T-P, he formed Borland
and started selling.  Migration to MS_DOS (and CPM-86) happened
later.  This dates back to '83 or so (I have a Turbo-Pascal compiler
with a 4 digit serial number to prove it), before MS-DOS was a real
market force.

Turbo-C didn't get to market until 85 or 86.  Indeed, Philippe, in 
a Dr Dobbs interview described C 'not as a language, but as a disease'
and indicated that they were getting into C rather reluctantly.
By this time, MS-DOS had pretty well taken over, so its rather doubtful
that a CPM Turbo-C copmpiler exists.

Incidentally, Modula-2 from Borland did go the way you suspicion.
Since M-2 was a natural extension for a house already selling
Pascal compilers, the CPM version did indeed grow.  But not an MS-DOS
version.  Because, probably, the market had moved on, Borland
declined to sell it themselves, but licensed it to Echelon.  My
guess is the decision might have been different if they had
an MS-DOS M2 compiler so they could support both OS's.  Sigh.

Rex Buddenberg
(disclaimer: no connection to Borland, only reciting folklore)