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  • Re: C/C++ programming the old days

    From Mr. Man-wai Chang@3:633/10 to All on Monday, June 15, 2026 18:44:00
    On 6/15/2026 3:40 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 6/10/2026 2:37 AM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

    I do have an old Turbo C 2.0 project involving RS232 serial port. It
    would be interesting to make it work in Windows, with TCP/IP support.

    That is an old compiler!

    It's a Videotex emulator. Yes, it was indeed old and written only for single-user operating system MS DOS.

    I had an old C compiler for my Apple IIGS.
    Iirc, ORCA? I cannot 100% remember right now. Wait... https://github.com/byteworksinc/ORCA-C

    This was before I got into programming my PC.

    I knew a Korean who wrote a program to print Korean characters in Apple
    ][ for his church, when i was in secondary school in Hong Kong. He used
    Apple BASIC, I believe.

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