Re: gEDA-user: about DJ

[Peter Baxendale <peter.baxendale@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We used to use DJGPP in our C programming classes. Now the students use
pcb in their ECAD classes. Wonder what he will turn his hand to next...

On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 18:11 -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On Nov 7, 2006, at 6:05 PM, Paul Bunyk wrote:
> > Brings back fond memories of compiling my code with PharLap, then with
> > djgpp and getting like 30% better performance with the latter! :-)
> > Moving to GNU toolchain completely right after that and to Linux
> > ("Hey, it actually *comes* will all the tools!") around kernel version
> > 0.93. First Slackware base install living on 16MB partition on my PC
> > with /usr/ NFS-mounted from Interactive UNIX server... 1991-1992, I
> > think...
> >
> > Thanks, DJ!
> 
>    I echo this "thanks" to DJ.  I was working on a 386DX/20 running  
> DOS, and had gotten about as far as I could with Turbo C.  It was a  
> good system, but it was like pulling teeth when compared to  
> developing on [what at the time was my] modern system, a Sun 4/110  
> running SunOS 4.1.  I finally found djgpp and it was like a breath of  
> fresh air.
> 
>                -Dave




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