On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:06:27 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 15 November 2009 15:44:16 David Relson wrote: > > On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:29:12 +0200 > > > > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > On Sunday 15 November 2009 06:07:59 David Relson wrote: > > > > The lack of 64-bit buildability for openwatcom is a whole > > > > 'nother subject and I'm in communication with the developer > > > > about it. > > > > > > Is this the very famous watcom compiler that's been around longer > > > than MS-DOS and eventually ended up being owned by Sybase? > > > > You are correct -- though lacking the "Sybase released it to the > > open source world" detail. > > Sybase actually release the source to something? Surely you jest? > > I used to work for the local Sybase reseller. I would not have > thought management would ever have open-sourced anything. > > Well, well, whaddayaknow. Miracles do happen. > > watcom was a very nice compiler back in the day. I remember it > trashing the pants off anything else in the market (this was in the > DOS-3.x era)
For more on Watcom C's history, including the Sybase release as open source, see http://www.openwatcom.org/index.php/History I used Watcom C quite a bit in the mid '90s to develop a bookkeepping program for Michigan Bingo games, and even made some spending money off of the project :-> At that time, my host operating system was 32-bit OS/2 and the target was 16-bit DOS. Watcom worked like a champion for me!
