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On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:06:27 +0200 |
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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Sunday 15 November 2009 15:44:16 David Relson wrote: |
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> > On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:29:12 +0200 |
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> > |
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> > Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > > On Sunday 15 November 2009 06:07:59 David Relson wrote: |
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> > > > The lack of 64-bit buildability for openwatcom is a whole |
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> > > > 'nother subject and I'm in communication with the developer |
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> > > > about it. |
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> > > |
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> > > Is this the very famous watcom compiler that's been around longer |
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> > > than MS-DOS and eventually ended up being owned by Sybase? |
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> > You are correct -- though lacking the "Sybase released it to the |
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> > open source world" detail. |
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> Sybase actually release the source to something? Surely you jest? |
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> I used to work for the local Sybase reseller. I would not have |
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> thought management would ever have open-sourced anything. |
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> Well, well, whaddayaknow. Miracles do happen. |
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> watcom was a very nice compiler back in the day. I remember it |
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> trashing the pants off anything else in the market (this was in the |
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> DOS-3.x era) |
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For more on Watcom C's history, including the Sybase release as open |
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source, see http://www.openwatcom.org/index.php/History |
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I used Watcom C quite a bit in the mid '90s to develop a bookkeepping |
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program for Michigan Bingo games, and even made some spending money |
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off of the project :-> |
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At that time, my host operating system was 32-bit OS/2 and the target |
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was 16-bit DOS. Watcom worked like a champion for me! |
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