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In <1992Aug11.082417.1@ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg> Ivan Leong writes:
>If I remember correctly, in one of the msgs I read that IBM C Set/2's compiler
>is the derivation of MS C 32bit compiler.
>
>I recently came across a package, MS OS/2 2.0 SDK and Languages. Inside,
>there're MS LAN Manager drvs for OS/2, MS 32bit C compiler (CL386), Codeview
>32bit (CV386) and 32bit vers of the usual stuff (.LIB, .H, etc).
>
>From the skimpy docs, it's beta code, contain bugs and certain things don't
>work. Most of the files are dated around May 92 and Jun 90. My MSC6.00 is dated
>Mar 90.
>
>Is this the IBM C Set/2 in its early days? If it is, was IBM C Set/2 modified
>much to be different from this MS 32bit C compiler?
>
>'il
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>

  C Set/2 is unrelated in ancestry to the MS compiler.  It is a member of the
Toronto Lab compiler family which includes compilers for the RISC/6000, S/370
and AS/400.   The compilers have a lot of common "front-end" code, and have
machine-specific code generators.

  The only think that you might want to keep from that MS development kit is
the assembler (MASM 6 variant), since C Set/2 doesn't come with one.

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