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From: ejkst@cisunx.UUCP (Eric J. Kennedy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: [Really Microsoft C]
Message-ID: <14131@cisunx.UUCP>
Date: 4 Dec 88 18:04:10 GMT
References: <8267@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <14103@cisunx.UUCP> <29@sdcc10.ucsd.EDU>
Reply-To: ejkst@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Eric J. Kennedy)
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh, Comp & Info Sys
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In article <29@sdcc10.ucsd.EDU> cs161agc@sdcc10.ucsd.edu.UUCP (John Schultz) writes:
>In article <14103@cisunx.UUCP> ejkst@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Eric J. Kennedy) writes:
>>In the December AmigaWorld, in the Buyer's guide, 
>>there is the Microsoft C Optomizing
>>Compiler 5.0 and Microsoft Quick C.  Does anybody have any more definite

>  Yah, know, I'll bet they are refering to these products available
>for an Amiga 2000 with the bridgeboard; MS/PC-DOS.  Besides,
>wouldn't a first run product be 1.0, AOT 5.0?

Oooh, that would be particularly slimy, now, wouldn't it?  Not that I
wouldn't put it past Microsoft.  Of course, if AmigaWorld wanted to
include MS-DOS software, their buyers guide would've been the size of a
New York City telephone book.

If this _is_ an Amiga product, then they might very well want to call it
version 5.0, since that's what the current DOS version is, or was not too
long ago, anyway.  Besides, did you ever hear of Lattice C 1.0, Aztec C
1.0, or WordPerfect 1.0?  It's not an unusual practice to retain the
version number on a port to another computer.