WATCOM C Language Reference
This is the original WATCOM C Language Reference, distributed for use with the GO Corp. PenPoint operating system (among other systems).
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Artifact Details
GO Corporation
Steven G. McDowell
Canada
English
1991
Perfect bound, black and white printed manual with color covers.
Chapters
- Introduction
- Language Reference
- Programmer's Guide
- Appendices
7" x 9" (276 pages)
1-55094-033-3
aee9a5ee2287c0ee
1992
Acquired from publisher
2018-07-13
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History
The WATCOM C Language Reference is a programming-language manual published under the WATCOM name, its front cover carrying the company's lightning-bolt insignia and its back cover the WATCOM wordmark.1
WATCOM's C compiler was part of the development toolset GO Corporation assembled for PenPoint, its pen-based operating system. When GO Corporation announced the commercial availability of PenPoint on April 16, 1992, it named the WATCOM C/386 32-bit C compiler as a tool developers could use to build PenPoint applications, working from the PenPoint Software Development Kit on an 80386- or 80486-compatible PC running DOS.2 In a companion announcement of industry-wide support for PenPoint issued the same day, GO Corporation listed WATCOM among the third-party companies extending the platform, noting that WATCOM had announced WATCOM SQL for PenPoint, an SQL database engine for the operating system.3
AI generated using primary sources referenced in the footnotes
Footnotes
- WATCOM, WATCOM C Language Reference (image scan), 1991
- GO Corporation, GO Corp. Announces Availability of PenPoint, April 16, 1992
- GO Corporation, GO Announces Industry-Wide Support for PenPoint, April 16, 1992
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Media
GO Corporation – Introducing PenPoint (1991)
GO Corporation used this video to promote the developer release of the PenPoint OS in 1991. PenPoint was one of the first operating systems designed specifically to run on mobile devices. Featuring: Dr. Norm Vincent (State Farm), Terry Conner (EDS), Phillipe Kahn (Borland), Jack Blount (Novell), David Reed (Lotus), Alan Lefkof (Grid), Vern Raburn (Slate), Dan Bricklin (Slate), and Jim Cannavino (IBM).
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