BDS C

[Tom Jennings]

On Fri, 6 May 2005, Al Kossow wrote:

>> It should be on a short list of historically significant software.
>
> Indeed..
>
> Leor released the sources to it a year or two ago as well.

A cool guy as always. It can be found here:

http://www.bdsoft.com/resources/bdsc.html

The README is pretty informative if you don't have the time:

http://www.bdsoft.com/dist/bdsc-readme.txt

I distinctly recall evaluating BDS against Whitesmith's 7-pass
compiler.  I don't recall the specific results, but I do remember
it being difficult to operate, sloooooooow, fussy, and expensive.
We ended up using BDS.