Watcom

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The Watcom International Corporation was founded in 1981 by three former employees of the Computer Systems Group (Fred Crigger, Ian McPhee and Jack Schueler) of Canada's University of Waterloo in Waterloo ( Ontario established). Watcom developed numerous programming tools, including the Watcom C compiler introduced in 1988 .

history

Even before the company was founded, Waterloo BASIC was developed for the IBM Series / 1 from 1978 and later ported to other IBM platforms.

In the initial phase, further language products were then offered:

A version of the Watcom FORTRAN 77 compiler for IBM-PC appeared in 1985.

In 1988 the first Watcom C / 16 compiler was released and in 1989 the 32-bit compiler Watcom C / 32. In the following years these were further developed to the Watcom C / C ++ compiler. Numerous well-known computer games of the DOS era were created with this compiler, but also the Novell Netware 386 network operating system or real-time applications under QNX .

In 1992, Watcom SQL, an SQL database server product, was launched.

The visual Rexx development environment VX-REXX was offered for OS / 2 from 1993 .

Watcom was acquired by Powersoft in 1994 . Soon after, Powersoft and Sybase merged in 1995 .

Since 2003 the Watcom C / C ++ and Fortran 77 compilers are available as open source under the name Open Watcom .

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