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From: lm at mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy)
Subject: [COFF] BDS C (was: Screen editors)
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2020 17:10:18 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200208011018.GX21264@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200208003228.GB75158@eureka.lemis.com>

On Sat, Feb 08, 2020 at 11:32:28AM +1100, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> Moving to COFF to avoid the wrath of wkt.
> 
> On Friday,  7 February 2020 at 18:54:33 -0500, Richard Salz wrote:
> > BDS C stood for Brain-Damaged Software, it was the work of one guy (Leor
> > Zolman).  I think it was used to build the Mark of the Unicorn stuff
> > (MINCE, Mince is not complete emacs, and Scribble, a scribe clone).
> 
> Correct.  That's how I came in contact with it (and Emacs, for that
> matter).

It may have been brain damaged but it compiled pretty tight code.
I spent at least 2 years writing code with BDS C, maybe more.  Then moved
to a Unix PC and never looked back (rotating disk is a lot nicer than
floppies).


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2020-02-08  1:10               ` lm [this message]
2020-02-08  2:37                 ` clemc

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