WATCOM C/386 User’s Guide for PenPoint
This is the original WATCOM C User’s Guide (Intel 386 architecture) for the GO Corp. PenPoint operating system.
Artifact Details
WATCOM Publications Limited
G. Coschi, J.B. Schueler, A.F. Scian
Canada
English
1991
Perfect bound, black and white printed manual with color covers.
Chapters
- WATCOM C/386 Compiler Guide
- WATCOM Linker
- WATCOM Tools
- The WATCOM Strip Utility
- The Make Utility
- The Touch Utility
- The Object File Disassembler
- The WATCOM Patch Utility
- Advanced Topics
- Pragmas
- Appendices
7" x 9" (352 pages)
1-55094-034-1
4744f5781f481f17
DOC-PP-0000
1992
Acquired from publisher
2020-06-21
About the Organization
Watcom International Corporation was founded in 1981 by Wes Graham and Ian McPhee. Founding staff (Fred Crigger, Jack Schueler and McPhee) were formerly members of Professor Graham's Computer Systems Group at the University of Waterloo, in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Watcom produced a variety of tools, including the well-known Watcom C/C++ compiler introduced in 1988.
The first company started by Graham and McPhee was Structured Computing Systems, incorporated in 1974. Then the software development company, WATCOM Systems Inc, started in 1981 with three full-time employees, but had been incorporated two years earlier as Waterloo Basic Enterprises Limited. In 1984, the various subsidiary companies of The WATCOM Group software organization—marketing and sales, publications, seminars and systems (software development) -- were all renamed as WATCOM companies for consistent branding. These were later all merged into one full-service software company, WATCOM International Inc.
(Source: Wikipedia)
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Editorial
This is the original WATCOM C User’s Guide (Intel 386 architecture) for the GO Corp. PenPoint operating system.
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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).
