It's biggest downside was that it was limited to producing 64KB .COM files until...

dosk · 2023-12-01T14:53:09.000000Z

This is not TP compiler limit. It's format and memory model limit.

EXE (aka MZ) is using other memory models

Narishma · 2023-12-01T19:50:49.000000Z

That's what I was saying. Turbo Pascal didn't support generating EXE files until version 4.

acqq · 2023-12-01T10:00:59.000000Z

AFAIK it was initially made to run on CP/M 8-bit systems, that 64 KB limit was a consequence.

I know I've used it on CP/M first.

It was really, really fast.