DOS ain't dead

The Open Watcom contributors have released version 1.7a RC2 on 23 October 2007.

Home page: http://www.openwatcom.org/
Download: http://ftp.openwatcom.org/ftp/devel/

Changes:
This version fixes two obscure but significant regressions in 1.7 relative to 1.6. It contains no new features or bug fixes compared to 1.7.

IIRC second bug was related to 16-bit Intel target and therefore pertinent to DOS developers.

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> Changes:
> This version fixes two obscure but significant regressions in
> 1.7 relative to 1.6. It contains no new features or bug fixes compared to
> 1.7.

You mean 1.7a RC1 instead of that last "1.7", right? Because 1.7a RC1 was called "basically the extra RC that 1.7 should've had before release". I have RC1, and I would hate to install the RC2 if there is no difference.

Anyways, after further (brief) searching, here's what I discovered:

> (Peter C. Chapin on news://openwatcom.users.c_cpp):
>
> Release candidate #2 contains Jiri's recent fix but otherwise *should*
> be the same as RC1. I encourage people to check it out, especially those
> who had issues with the original 1.7.

> version fixes two obscure but significant regressions in 1.7
> relative to 1.6. It contains no new features or bug fixes compared to 1.7

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> > Changes:
> > This version fixes two obscure but significant regressions in
> > 1.7 relative to 1.6. It contains no new features or bug fixes compared
> > to 1.7.
>
> You mean 1.7a RC1 instead of that last "1.7", right? Because 1.7a RC1 was

It doesn't matter what I mean, because it was a quote from the Open Watcom website. Therefore I made it italic.

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