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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. Watcom was great. How about today? by CresentCityRon · · Score: 5, Interesting

    In the late 80s (?) Watcom products were really great. They were beating on everything for the Intel platform.

    I received the email yesterday about Watcom's "release" to open source. In that email it says that Sybase felt there was no commercial value in the product anymore so they released it. My question is "Has Sybase been keeping this thing up? Is it useful today?" Or is this a scam to try to give life to a dying patient? I mean perhaps people working on this might be better off working on gcc or something.

    Thanks!

  2. Performance comparisons by golrien · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I was going to ask if there were any performance comparisons around showing how Watcom performed, but then I realised that anyone with half a brain ran something through Google before Slashdot.

    Win32 compilers (not including Watcom - and with good reason, it's a bitch to set up on Win32)

    as linked from the djgpp FAQ, some info on DOS compilers.

    So, hooray! A lesson in using Google before Slashdot mixed with some blatant karma-whoring.

    PS. this is good too.