From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au (Peter Jeremy) Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 07:14:48 +1100 Subject: [TUHS] Re: Porting Unix v6 to i386 In-Reply-To: <200203031251.g23CpQI17595@gits.dyndns.org>; from cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net on Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 01:51:25PM +0100 References: <200201301952.g0UJq0E39966@ducky.net> <200203031251.g23CpQI17595@gits.dyndns.org> Message-ID: <20020304071448.P78085@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> On 2002-Mar-03 13:51:25 +0100, Cyrille Lefevre wrote: >Mike Haertel wrote: >> >Anyhow I have started gathering the tools (Watcom C compiler now >> >open source and free! www.openwatcom.org) >> >> They have announced that it *will be* open source and free, >> but so far as far as I can tell there is nothing available >> at openwatcom.org except a binary-only patch to upgrade >> the last commercial version 11 to 11.0c. >> >> So, it isn't yet. Right now it's just vaporware. > >as of march 2002, try the download page to get the "binary" compiler. > > http://www.openwatcom.com/download.html For several years now, Sybase has been announcing that it will release the source code to its C/C++ and FORTRAN compilers. This is _still_ vaporware. Their latest press release suggests that they have decided on a License - but won't even make that public at present. You can download a Windoze executable, but that is not of much use for Unix. And the size of the download suggests that there will need to be a fair bit of work to make it run natively in a 16-bit environment. At this time, the only open-source 16-bit x86 C compiler I know of is Bruce Evans' C compiler (bcc). Peter