kenw@midas.TEK.COM (Ken West) (12/20/88)
I attended a C++ seminar last week given by the authors of a well known C++ book. They said that Zortech was out of business for failing to pay for several adds in major magazines. Has anybody heard anything about this? Ken West Tektronix
maxsmith@athena.mit.edu (Samuel M Druker) (12/22/88)
Zortech is alive and well! There was a management shake up in November, but TPTB say business is better than ever and compilers keep going out the door. ------------- Samuel Druker, Boston, MA ARPAnet:maxsmith@athena.mit.edu, bix:maxsmith
bright@Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright) (12/22/88)
In article <3792@midas.TEK.COM> kenw@midas.TEK.COM (Ken West) writes:
<I attended a C++ seminar last week given by the authors of a well
<known C++ book. They said that Zortech was out of business for failing
<to pay for several adds in major magazines. Has anybody heard anything
<about this?
Hardly. December is our best month yet. We have no intentions of going
out of business. We've spoken to the author, and he's apologized for
spreading misinformation.randy@m2xenix.UUCP (Randy Bush) (12/22/88)
In article <3792@midas.TEK.COM> kenw@midas.TEK.COM (Ken West) writes: >I attended a C++ seminar last week given by the authors of a well >known C++ book. They said that Zortech was out of business for failing >to pay for several adds in major magazines. Has anybody heard anything >about this? How embarrassing _for them_. Yes. Walter bright is alive and well. Zortech C++ is real, and is a true compiler. There is a new version of the compiler that works pretty darn well. Coworkers use it and like it. Street rumor should be taken as just that. If we can keep the rumors down, WB will have time to make the compiler even better, rather than having to combat gossip. To those wanting C++ on MS-DOSe, one can safely recommend Zortech C++. -- { mcvax!uunet!oresoft, tektronix!percival!qiclab } !m2xenix!randy Randy Bush
rchen@m.cs.uiuc.edu (12/30/88)
>> /* Written 11:20 pm Dec 21, 1988 by randy@m2xenix.UUCP in comp.lang.c++ */ >> To those wanting C++ on MS-DOSe, one can safely recommend Zortech C++. I wish Zortech could generate (as an option) Turbo C compatible object code so I can link it with my Turbo C graphics libraries. I consider it as a great drawback that Zortech is incompatible with any of the existing well known C compilers on MS-DOS. Zortech is a good choice if you want to learn C++ but it is too primitive to do anything real. -Ron Chen