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On 4/4/25 3:11 PM, rbowman wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Apr 2025 07:53:33 -0700, John Ames wrote:
> 
>> On 4 Apr 2025 00:50:26 GMT rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The version I bought was for CP/M. TBH I wasn't all that interested in
>>> Pascal but I wanted to see what you could possibly get for $49.95.
>>
>> That was the key: fast, usable, and *way* cheaper than anything else on
>> the market. (Microsoft C - really just a re-branded Lattice C - cost
>> *ten times as much,* the same year TP rolled out.) Whether Pascal was
>> your favorite programming language or not, that made a *big* difference
>> to scrappy independent developers and prospective enterpreneurs.
> 
> Microsoft C 3.0 was a polished product for its day with printed manuals
> and everything. GE paid for it so I don't know what it cost. Before they
> got into Windows I thought of MS more as a tool provider, with MSDOS as an
> afterthought. It was third party TSRs and, iirc, Quaterdeck's memory
> manager that made DOS on an AT usable.


   Ah, I remember QEMM ... a big improvement, could
   actually use a LOT of RAM.

   The compilers offered by IBM/(M$) were very good.
   We kinda though of M$ as a hero company back then,
   all the good tools. Then .........

   As I recall ... there was 'C' and Pascal and FORTRAN
   along with a MASM. A BASIC compiler was also to be
   had (and I used it). Of course those were all the
   typical multi-pass compilers - two, three, four steps
   to get an executable of even a short simple pgm.
   BUT, they worked. Still have those in a DOS VM and
   mess with them from time to time.