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From: thj@mtcchi.uucp (XT0221000-Tom Hjellming(ZG90210)0000)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: BC++ and MSC SDK...
Message-ID: <1991Mar5.163205.22435@mtcchi.uucp>
Date: 5 Mar 91 16:32:05 GMT
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wallis@sieras.enet.dec.com (Barry L. Wallis) writes:


>In article <27180@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>, jdb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian K. W. Hook) writes...
>>About Borland using MSC for their stuff.  I DOUBT IT SEVERELY.  To find
>>out, simply use GREP or Norton Text Search (TS) and search .COM and .EXE
>>files for the string "Borland" or "Microsoft".  Compilers usually embed
>>this copyright string in the software they compile (hey, I found it in
>>LHX Attack Chopper and all the Borland QPRO stuff!).
>> 

>Here's an interesting twist. The Whitewater Resource Toolkit Resource Compiler
>is Microsoft's. In fact when you run it the only copyright that is displayed is
>by Microsoft. So I guess Borland licensed it from Whitewater and Whitewater
>licensed it from MS (and they each need to make a profit on it).

I'm not sure I believe that.  WRT was actually written using ACTOR (The
Whitewater Group's OOP language).  The older manual (WRT version 1.0) says
that the WRT was developed as an example of what you can do with ACTOR.

I would believe that ACTOR was written using MSC since MS-C was the
only compiler you could use for Win development back in ~1985 when ACTOR
started.  So you may be seeing strings from that.

Now what may tie all this together was the rumor that my boss told me a month
or two ago:  Microsoft bought The Whitewater Group.  But I'm not sure I
believe that either since I haven't seen anything about it in the trade rags.


Now we're getting off on tangents...

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