On Fri, 6 May 2005, Al Kossow wrote:
It should be
on a short list of historically significant software.
Indeed..
Leor released the sources to it a year or two ago as well.
A cool guy as always. It can be found here:
http://www.bdsoft.com/resources/bdsc.html
The README is pretty informative if you don't have the time:
http://www.bdsoft.com/dist/bdsc-readme.txt
I distinctly recall evaluating BDS against Whitesmith's 7-pass
compiler. I don't recall the specific results, but I do remember
it being difficult to operate, sloooooooow, fussy, and expensive.
We ended up using BDS.