>In the early 90's C was still hardly a thing outside the UNIX computer lab. That's not what I remembered. Back in 1989, I bought the very popular Microsoft C

>In the early 90's C was still hardly a thing outside the UNIX computer lab. That's not what I remembered. Back in 1989, I bought the very popular Microsoft C 5.1 compiler (in shrinkwrapped box) from the Egghead retail store. Egghead was basically a smaller version of CompUSA. Also, non-UNIX publications like PC Magazine and BYTE had ads for Borland Turbo C. Watcom C was also a competitor. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, if one wanted to write COTS software for DOS on IBM PC compatibles, it was either assembly or C Language. Other languages like dBASE/Clipper/4GL were for LOB apps instead of COTS. In 1985, both Lotus 123 v3 and MS Excel were written using C. It was more like the early 1980s before the personal computer revolution when the C Language was mostly tied to UNIX.