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From: Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Trouble compiling flip with TurboC 1.5
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Date: 20 Jul 89 12:18:25 GMT
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In article <26514@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, ked@garnet.berkeley.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth) wrote:
}In article <14517@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> pete@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Peter Schmitt) writes:
}TC 1.5.   As I remember, for some totally (pardon the technical jargon)
}TOTALLY HALF-ASSED REASON, signal was actually csignal or something.

ssignal() and gsignal() instead of signal() and raise().

}This was one of a number of TOTALLY HALF-ASSED, deviations from **IX
}(with NO GOOD OR BAD REASON) "features" of TC 1.0 and 1.5 which, in
}testimony to their original brilliance and utility, were ELIMINATED with
}TC 2.0.

I believe ssignal and gsignal are from a very early version of Un*x (V6?).

}The original TC 1.0 had more bugs than raw meat in a third world bazaar,
}but NOT one review I read discovered that, for example, TC 1.0 floating
}point was more flakey than old paint on a brick wall.

If you thought TC 1.0 was bad, I shudder to think what you would have thought
of MSC 4.0, MSC 5.0, MASM 2.0, MASM 3.0, MASM 4.0, DOS 4.00, etc.  At least
Borland provides patches, rather than forcing you to wait for (and then buy!)
the next release.
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