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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.

2 of 287 comments (clear)

  1. Sweet! by Cinematique · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Linux drivers for my Wacom tablet! Err... uh... wait a minute.

  2. Re:DOS days by TheJesusCandle · · Score: 1, Redundant

    gcc could do with some competition, yes its stable, no it is not at the leading edge of performance any more, processor optimization is at least a generation behind what's commonly available and ignores some architectures completely.

    I'm looking forward to someone benchmarking gcc vs watcom to see how they do.