On 12/2/2024 12:32 AM, Bruce Axtens via Freedos-devel wrote:
So I stumbled over "Digital Research CBASIC-86 Compiler 2.0 for
MS-DOS" again and tried it in vDosPlus which let me run the compiler
(at least).
Has anyone had any experience with this compiler?
I had a couple of years with its parent, CB-80 on MP/M II. It was
pretty good as I recall though that was 40 something years ago.
Depends on what you refer to as experience. But yes, I did use both
CB-80 as well as CB-86 (both on CP/M-86 and MS-DOS) back in those days,
though this is now as you mention, +40 years ago...
It's use of BCD floating point math was great for accounting style
applications, but there were also a lot of things where it kinda s**ked
compared to others, like Microsoft's BASCOM (and later, QuickBASIC/PDS).
And another fine example where DR dropped the ball to further develop
this into a better compiler. At latest when a handful of BusinessBASIC
variations started to appear on PCs, it was anything but yesterday's news...
Ralf
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