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Open Watcom 1.0 Released

Posted by michael on from the competition-is-good dept.

JoshRendlesham writes "The Open Watcom C/C++ and FORTRAN 1.0 compilers have been officially released. The source, and binaries for Win32 and OS/2 systems, are available. This release also means that outside developers can join and contribute to the project." Or if you prefer, gcc is up to 3.2.2.

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  1. Superb! by occamboy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Another version of FORTRAN! Yeah! Now if I can just find a card punch machine and reader on eBay, I'll have hutled into the 1970s!

  2. No Time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sorry, no time to read this now. Will catch it on the repost....

  3. Re:Stop duplication of effort by Anthony+Boyd · · Score: 3, Funny
    This is a waste of time.

    Yeah. That whole "competition" thing is totally overrated.

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  4. Re:DOS days by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Me too. I had to rob several convenience stores to save enough too buy the software, because I didn't want to pirate it.

  5. Re:DOS days by Exiler · · Score: 2, Funny

    No it doesn't. Your favorite distro might, but last I checked the Linux kernel does not come with a compiler, maybe you're talking about Emacs?

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  6. Re:DOS days by Reziac · · Score: 2, Funny

    Not to mention that DJGPP is responsible for the worldwide shortage of sacrificial chickens and goats!! Installing it has been described as a black art, and getting good performance from the resulting binaries.. lordy. Talk about bad juju.

    (And will someone PLEASE fix the stack overflow/memory leak in CWSDPMI?? It's been there since the Go32v2 days!!)

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