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Dean Baguette

@nixCraft Everone who hit puberty in the 80's, who wanted something spiffier than Basic, but couldn't afford a C compiler.

List price for TP was $50; the license to let you distrubute binaries was an extra $100. For people who wanted to write shareware, TP was an incredibly small initial investment.