6 May
2005
6 May
'05
4:01 p.m.
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.
8 May
8 May
4:13 a.m.
On Fri, 6 May 2005, Al Kossow wrote:
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.
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. 
9:19 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
9 May
9 May
2:51 a.m.
On Sun, 8 May 2005, Brad Parker wrote:
Agreed; Whitesmiths was the "real thing" but when push came to
shove, BDS got the job done better. Unix compatibility wasn't an
issue, and BDS sure beat M80 for program development! Besides
basic std lib wasn't hard to code using the FCB file junk BSD
supported.
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. 
11:55 a.m.
If you are looking for a CP/M compiler today, don't forget Hi-Tech's
compiler. (Do they still offer it free on the web? I don't see their
site, but I do see others offering it.) I seem to recall theirs is
Z80 only, but it has the advantage of being nealy ANSI, which is good
for those of us who no longer type in K&R syntax.
Eric
10 May
10 May
11:21 a.m.
Eric J Korpela wrote:
If you are looking for a CP/M compiler today,
don't forget Hi-Tech's
compiler. (Do they still offer it free on the web? I don't see their
site, but I do see others offering it.) I seem to recall theirs is
Z80 only, but it has the advantage of being nealy ANSI, which is good
for those of us who no longer type in K&R syntax.
Eric
Is this the link you are looking for?
http://www.htsoft.com/products/CPM.php
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