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From: lm at mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy)
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2020 17:10:18 -0800
Subject: [COFF] BDS C (was: Screen editors)
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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).