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Last Updated: 16 Jul 2003
Author: Dave Williams; dlwilliams=aristotle=net
Back in 1991, 1992, somewhere around there, I bought a copy of the then- state-of-the-art Microsoft C 4.0 C compiler. It cost over $400, and came with, as I according to a note I made at the time, 8700 pages of printed documentation, several boxes of floppy discs (5.25" and 3.5"), a CD-ROM, and various quick-reference cards in a box weighing 33 pounds. It could compile code for DOS, OS/2, or Windows.
The compiler was superceded by MSC 5.0 a year or two later, which then morphed into "Visual C++". The MSC 4.0 compiler was only good for a couple of years.
The box, on the other hand, served me well for ten or twelve years. In September of 2003, I was rummaging around in it out in the shop, where it was employed storing old car parts, and noticed it was getting tatty. So it went out in the trash.
Overall, it looks like I got much more use out of the box than I did out of the compiler...
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