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From: jerry@donk.UUCP (jerry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Small C for IBM PC?
Message-ID: <276@donk.UUCP>
Date: 23 Mar 89 19:44:43 GMT
References: <15990@oberon.USC.EDU> <1294@hounx.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: jerry@.UUCP (Jerry Gaiser)
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Organization: DTE, Intel Corporation; Hillsboro, OR
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In article <1294@hounx.ATT.COM> marty1@hounx.ATT.COM (M.B.BRILLIANT) writes:
>
>It sounds like a system for the IBM PC I got from a shareware
>distributor.  But the IBM PC version I got came with sample C source
>programs that would never compile in Small C, and at the end it asked
>for a $40 fee to use it.  For $40 I'd sooner double the ante and get
>Turbo C.  Is there a free IBM version, or is it only free for CP/M?
>
>Please don't tell me SIMTEL, AT&T won't talk to SIMTEL.  First I want
>to know whether it exists.
>
>M. B. Brilliant					Marty
>AT&T-BL HO 3D-520	(201) 949-1858
>Holmdel, NJ 07733	att!homxc!marty
>
>Disclaimer: Opinions stated herein are mine unless and until my employer
>            explicitly claims them; then I lose all rights to them.


There is a PD small-c for the IBM PC. I believe it is based on Jim Hendrix's
version for CP/M. I pulled both executable and full source from BYTE magazines
bulletin board about a year ago. I have been able to re-compile the source code
using the executable.


                                     Jerry Gaiser
                                     Intel Corporation
                                     Development Tools Organization

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