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to: Charles Angelich
from: Roy J. Tellason
date: 2003-09-26 12:06:02
subject: Re: Re: GNU...

Charles Angelich wrote in a message to Bob Stout:

>> The older Pacific C (K&R) would fit on one 1.4meg floppy which I 
>> thought was a hoot! Being K&R became a 'stopper' but it was neat 
>> that you could put it on one floppy. :-)

BS> Datalight C (the precursor to Zortech and later Symantec C/C++) 
BS> also fit on a single 5-1/4" floppy. I still have it around here, 
BS> but I'm not sure if the only 5-1/2" drive on my family's network 
BS> still works.

CA> Never used any of the above mentioned compilers but I recall 
CA> Zortech being well thought of at one time.

I remember seeking out one particular version of Binkleyterm that was
compiled under Zortech because it made for a smaller executable file than
any of the other compilations of that version at that time.  For some
reason this was very important to me back then.  :-)

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