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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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> 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 'nother |
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> > > subject and I'm in communication with the developer about it. |
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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 open |
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> 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 thought |
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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 trashing the |
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pants off anything else in the market (this was in the DOS-3.x era) |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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