Talk:Watcom

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I talked to some Novell Employees at the SuSE Novell booth a couple years ago at Linux Expo in NYC. They said that Novell was compiled with Watcom. --Zippy1981 05:16, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Watcom compilers basis for Commodore Super Pet

The products: Waterloo BASIC, WATCOM APL, WATCOM COBOL, WATCOM FORTRAN, WATCOM Pascal and the Waterloo 6809 Assembler were used in the Commodore Super Pet which was created with them in mind. The hardware (additions to the Pet) were done in Toronto and software at Waterloo.

This was a Commodore Pet with the processor (6801?) removed and a daughterboard in its place with a Motorola 6809 and 64K of RAM for the compilers on it. The Super Pet was sold with all the WatCom software. It was developed partially before the release of the 6809 with Waterloo getting the NDA spec for the processor from Commodore without Motorola knowledge.

The idea was that this would be a teaching computer as it contained many of the programming languages that would be taught in a Computer Science class. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.231.43.16 (talk) 22:44, 5 March 2008 (UTC)