cost money, C and other languages did not Only in the UNIX world, where C was a freebie. When I first got into C, pricey Microsoft C and MASM were needed for

cost money, C and other languages did not Only in the UNIX world, where C was a freebie. When I first got into C, pricey Microsoft C and MASM were needed for MS-DOS development. Turbo C, gcc, etc. came later.