8 May
2005
8 May
'05
6:19 a.m.
Tom Jennings wrote:
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.
Not really a fair comparison, imho. but both products changed my life :-)
Whitesmith's was out much earlier and did, in fact work. It was just
really slow on floppies. And it was available on rt-11/rsts, which
turned out to be really handy.
BDS was fast, but not as complete. I ended up using BDS for most
production work. (it was "load and go fortran" for s-100 :-)
An amazing product for the time. Much like "Think C" for macintosh.
-brad