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) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
