Borland Turbo Debugger

<h2 id="reception">Reception</h2>
<p><i><a href="/facts/BYTE/xWovF95Q">BYTE</a></i> in January 1989 listed Turbo Debugger as among the "Distinction" winners of the BYTE Awards. Praising its ease of use and integration with Turbo Pascal and Turbo C, the magazine described it as "a programmer's <a href="/facts/Swiss_army_knife/uGnMy3kG">Swiss army knife</a>".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> In a February 1989 overview of optimizing C compilers, the magazine described it as "the best source debugger".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a>
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<h2 id="turbo-debugger-and-emulation">Turbo Debugger and emulation</h2>
<p>Various versions of Turbo Assembler, spanning from version 1.0 through 5.0, have been reported[<i>by whom?</i>] to run on the <a href="/facts/DOSBox/Du2egHYo">DOSBox</a> emulator, which emulates DOS 5.0.
</p><p>The last DOS release of TD.EXE, version 3.2, runs successfully in the 32-bit <a href="/facts/Windows_XP/IozrkAYS">Windows XP</a> <a href="/facts/Virtual_DOS_machine/Wv1jNzBx">NTVDM</a> (i.e., in a DOS window, invoked with <a href="/facts/CMD.EXE/FUmTvew6">CMD.EXE</a>), but TD286.EXE and TD386.EXE do not. Hardware breakpoints supported by the 386 and later processors are available if TDH386.SYS is loaded by including "<a href="/facts/DEVICE_(CONFIG.SYS_directive)/a1QSEJhj">DEVICE</a>=<path>TDH386.SYS" in a <a href="/facts/CONFIG.NT/a1QSEJhj">CONFIG.NT</a> file invoked when running TD.EXE.
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<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/CodeView/PnBtaBwv">CodeView</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/SoftICE/AHngzMfx">SoftICE</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="further-reading">Further reading</h2>
<ul><li>Most of the information is documented in files supplied with Turbo Debugger, in particular "TURBO DEBUGGER TIPS AND HINTS", HELPME!.TD and "USING THE HARDWARE DEBUGGING FEATURES", HDWDEBUG.TD.</li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>TurboPower T-Debug Plus 4.0 on the Internet Archive <a href="https://archive.org/details/TurboPowerFastResponseSeriesT-DebugPlus4.00" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/TurboPowerFastResponseSeriesT-DebugPlus4.00</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Run-Time Debugger for Pascal 4.0, InfoWorld, 1988-03-21 <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=9j4EAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22turbo+pascal%22+debugger+-%22turbo+debugger%22&pg=PA26" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books?id=9j4EAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22turbo+pascal%22+debugger+-%22turbo+debugger%22&pg=PA26</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>Advertisement for Turbo Debugger <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20021002180510/http://bdn.borland.com/article/images/20841/tc20ad.jpg" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20021002180510/http://bdn.borland.com/article/images/20841/tc20ad.jpg</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>"The BYTE Awards". BYTE. January 1989. p. 338. <a href="https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1989-01/1989_01_BYTE_14-01_PC_Communications_and_Annual_Awards_and_Digitizing_Tablets#page/n371/mode/2up" target="_blank">https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1989-01/1989_01_BYTE_14-01_PC_Communications_and_Annual_Awards_and_Digitizing_Tablets#page/n371/mode/2up</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:5"><p>Apiki, Steven; Udell, Jon (February 1989). "Smoothing Out C". BYTE. pp. 170–186. Retrieved 2024-10-08. <a href="https://archive.org/details/eu_BYTE-1989-02_OCR/page/n225/mode/1up?view=theater" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/eu_BYTE-1989-02_OCR/page/n225/mode/1up?view=theater</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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