- I have written previously about why Turbo Pascal is a Great Choice For Programming Under CP/M and now it is time to talk about what could have been. You probably haven’t heard of Turbo Modula-2 for CP/M as it was only on the market for a brief period of time. However, it was a superb product and, in many ways, feels like a grown-up version of Turbo Pascal. Why TM-2 made such a fleeting appearance is shrouded in mystery. It was released in 1986 by Echelon under license from Borland and then quickly withdrawn. There doesn’t seem to be any publicly documented reason for the withdrawal and it is said that Borland even denied its existence for a time. I want to show why it was a real shame this happened, and how much better a programmer’s life could have been.