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As I recall it, when TP came out on the it meant that you no longer had to choose between Basic and 16 bit segmented mode asm. Not many people had heard of C b
by marshray 14y ago
As I recall it, when TP came out on the it meant that you no longer had to choose between Basic and 16 bit segmented mode asm.
Not many people had heard of C back then and Pascal was considered a very well-designed language. The PC C compilers of the time were somewhat lousy. Few people doing PC development had access to a proper *NIX machine.
- astrodust 14y agoYou had a choice between several types of C compiler: lousy, expensive, or lousy and expensive! When Linux came out I was kind of stunned you got gcc thrown in like it was no big deal.