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I was there too. C was a common language for developing from-scratch DOS applications in the 1980's. Sometimes portability was a consideration, often not. Mark
by marshray 11y ago
I was there too.
C was a common language for developing from-scratch DOS applications in the 1980's. Sometimes portability was a consideration, often not. Mark Williams and Microsoft C were two popular compilers.
- pjmlp 11y agoMicrosoft C before Visual C++ being popular?! Not on my country, it was all about Borland compilers, even in the Windows 3.x days. Microsoft was even the last vendor to add support for C++ on the last MS-DOS version of Microsoft C, version 7 if I remember correctly.
- marshray 11y agoYes, Borland "Turbo" C was another massively popular choice. But you can't simultaneously argue that C wasn't used for PC platform development in the 1980's and that Borland C was dominant.
- pjmlp 11y ago> it was all about Borland compilers I never said directly I was referring to Borland C, actually it was all about Turbo Basic and Turbo Pascal. I and a few others did use Turbo C, but we jumped right into Turbo C++ the year thereafter, as we could not envision using plain C after having done systems programming in the other Borland languages. C was left for programming classes, usually trying to convince the teacher to use C++ instead for projects, sadly it only worked occasionally.