MB> It was a special "introductory" price for the first few months
 MB> after the compiler was released.  I think it ended on October 31,
 MB> 1994, but I could be wrong about that.

 JM> Ok.  I thought that was the answer.  Well, I will look 
 JM> for it in the latest
 JM> Computer Shopper.  I think I saw it for $495 somewhere.

I think the regular price is only about $349.

 JM> What I like about Watcom is that I don't have to go out and buy a whole
 JM> new compiler to support other operating systems like Unix (can you say
 JM> LINUX?)

The Watcom compiler that does DOS, Windows, and OS/2 does not do Unix.  You
might be able to kludge something up so that you can generate Unix targets,
but there is no Unix-hosted Watcom compiler in the way that there are DOS-,
Windows-, and OS/2-hosted compilers.  Watcom does have facilities for
making targets for "foreign" environments, such as NetWare NLMs
or enbedded ROMs, and the run-time library is documented with regard to
which functions are re-entrant and which are OS-independent.

If you want a Unix compiler, you should probably look at GNU C (GCC), which
is free. It is the official Linux compiler, by the way, and should be
included as part of any Linux distribution in the "D"
(development) component.  Be aware that dynamic linkage facilities in Unix
are usually considered to be a feature of the compiler, not of the
operating system.  This shows up in EMX, which is one of the OS/2 ports of
GCC, where it is common for the C run-time library to be distributed as a
DLL instead of being linked into the EXE.

-- Mike

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