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On Sat, 28 Sep 2024 22:28:46 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> I started out on BDS C which had sever limitations, not the least was
> promoting everything 8 bit to 16 bit to do comparisons etc.

For what it was Zolman's Brain Dead Software was great. Even after the the 
repackaged Lattice C Microsoft first used had limitations.