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From: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Humorous bug in Sprint
Message-ID: <5969@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM>
Date: 20 Sep 89 19:18:42 GMT
References: <21911@hodge.UUCP> <22297@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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In article <22297@cup.portal.com> Devin_E_Ben-Hur@cup.portal.com writes:
>> I must assume that Sprint was, in reality, compiled with
>> Microsoft C.  
>   Sprint was originally a w.p. called FinalWord II developed and sold
>by Mark of the Unicorn.  It was acquired and "Borlandized" at about
>the same that Wizard C was acquired and Borlandized into Turbo C.
>Presumably, the original product was developed with MSC.

I already replied to the original poster, but since there was a reply
here, lets get the history complete.  While Sprint came from FinalWord,
it was *originally* the Mince/Scribble combination for CP/M.  And was
written in BDS C.  Mince (Mince Is Not Completely Emacs) and Scribble
(a scribe clone) were sold separately. I have Mince, and still occasionally
use it. It was available bundled with the compiler and partial sources. You
could configure it by modifying the sources and recompiling. An amazing
product for the time.

Tom Almy
toma@tekgvs.labs.tek.com
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