Robert S. Zale, known as Bob Zale (1945 to 2012), was the designer of the BASIC/Z compiler and the founder of PowerBASIC Inc. BASIC/Z was the first interactive compiler for CP/M and MDOS, the Micropolis disk operating system, and Zale designed and created it. Borland bought the full rights in 1987 and rebranded it Turbo Basic. When Borland abandoned Turbo BASIC in late 1988 or early 1989, Zale purchased back all the rights to its source code in 1989, renamed it PowerBASIC and set up PowerBASIC Inc. to continue development and support. The company went on to publish PowerBASIC for DOS and then Windows compilers, first PBWIN and then PBCC. Robert Zale died on 6 November 2012, and his wife Vivian Zale later announced that the company would continue operating.
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Robert "Bob" S Zale (1945-2012)
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Bob Zale, in 1989, purchased back all the rights to Turbo BASIC source code, renamed it PowerBASIC and set up PowerBASIC Inc. to continue further development and support.
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