BDS C

[Brad Parker]

Tom Jennings wrote:
>
>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.

Not really a fair comparison, imho.  but both products changed my life :-)

Whitesmith's was out much earlier and did, in fact work.  It was just
really slow on floppies.  And it was available on rt-11/rsts, which
turned out to be really handy.

BDS was fast, but not as complete.  I ended up using BDS for most
production work.  (it was "load and go fortran" for s-100 :-)

An amazing product for the time.  Much like "Think C" for macintosh.

-brad