30 Apr
2025
30 Apr
'25
1:53 p.m.
On Wed, 30 Apr 2025, Noel Chiappa wrote:
That leaves several mysteries. 1) Why would a
commercial compiler not come
with a linker? 2) Why did people who wanted to work with the PC/IP source
need a Bell license?
A possible answer for 1, since we're probably talking about a compiler for
MS-DOS: most releases of MS-DOS and PC DOS, at least through version 3.3,
came with a linker, so maybe they didn't deem it necessary.
-uso.