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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Subject: Re: Past Blast - "Wonder Woman 1984" - Corp Guy Using PET
Date: 4 Apr 2025 19:11:44 GMT
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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.