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OS/2 and C compilers were readily available for downloaded on BBses. I'm pretty sure I downloaded Turbo C onto like 20 floppy disks over ZModem or something.
by chubot 10y ago
OS/2 and C compilers were readily available for downloaded on BBses.
I'm pretty sure I downloaded Turbo C onto like 20 floppy disks over ZModem or something. Not only did it take forever to download, but installing it was a huge pain, with all the disk swapping. I guess the hard disk didn't have enough space for both the raw disks and the install? I don't remember exactly.
I never ran OS/2 but a friend did, and I'm pretty sure he downloaded it rather than paying for it. A primary form of social currency on BBSes is who had access to commercial software, i.e. the "zero-day warez".
- apaprocki 10y agoYeah Borland Turbo C in DOS was the way to go. My first board ran on multi-tasking DOS in DESQview before moving over to OS/2 -> Windows over the years.
- 20after4 10y agoHeh same here. DESQview worked remarkably well, actually.
- dragonwriter 10y ago> I guess the hard disk didn't have enough space for both the raw disks and the install? Floppy-disk-based installers were often hardcoded to use the A: drive so even if there was space for the install and the floppy installer on the HDD, you'd need to copy the installer to the floppies to use it, unless you had some workaround.
- Narishma 10y agoI'm pretty sure MS-DOS had the SUBST command to alias drives and paths from an early version.