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BIG "C" compiler cmp | the "scientific" facts ore out DW (Developers)

posted by Rugxulo Homepage, Usono, 07.04.2008, 23:38

> To my best knowledge it also supports 64-bit fine and some near models in
> 64-bit mode :-)

Yes, I know. I was mainly referring to this:

> (quoting DJ Delorie):
>
> DJGPP was born around 1989 [...], when Richard Stallman spoke at a meeting
> of the Northern New England Unix Users Group (NNEUUG) at Data General,
> where I then worked. I asked if the FSF ever planned on porting gcc to
> MS-DOS [...], and he said it couldn't be done because gcc was too big
> and MS-DOS was a 16-bit operating system. Challenge in hand, I began.

The FSF specifically didn't even try to port GCC etc. to DOS, so it had to be done independently.

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