Stacy Smith wrote in a message to Martin Pollard:

 SS> Does Watcom produce both DOS and OS/2 executables from the
 SS> same compiler, or do I need a DOS and an OS/2 version of
 SS> their compiler?  Any other comments/caveats regarding
 SS> Watcom?

You can build 32 and 16 bit OS/2, 32 and 16 bit DOS (includes a royalty
free copy of Rational System's DOS4GW 32-bit extender), 16 and 32 bit
Windows and Windows NT executables from DOS, Windows 3.x, NT or OS/2 hosted
command-line compilers or Win/NT/OS2 GUI IDE's. You can also do kinky
things like Novell NLM's and AUTOCAD stuff and ROMable code too :-) It
comes with debuggers for DOS/Win/NT/OS2 that not only are capable of over
LAN or serial port remote debugging, but will even let you debug say a DOS
.EXE running in a VDM from the OS/2 debugger as a "remote"
session via named pipes. It isn't perfect (What software is? ... And that
gets rather subjective too :), but it's getting a lot closer than anyone
else for multi-platform stuff, and is right at the top of the list for any
single platform to boot IMHO. At under $199 on the street, it's a steal.
Caveat: If you really want to do a full install (all compilers, SDK's,
API's, compilers, debuggers, etc) you're gonna need 100MB of drive space.
Oh, did I mention that it comes with IBM's toolkit, MS's SDK's for Win and
NT and Novell's NLM tools, and handles SOM, SOM2 and OLE now? Oh, and as
I'm sure you'll hear from others, Watcom's support is second to NOBODY (you
have to experience it to beleive it... take it from an ex Borland & MS
junkie like yourself :). I've had it since the early days of the LA version
and still haven't found bottom... Needless to say, I'm *VERY* impressed.

Cheers,
             Jim
             jim{at}aisbbs.com 
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