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From: Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>
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In article <9q4rel$23p$1@nh.pace.co.uk>, Marin David Condic says...
>restrictions to prevent a vendor from using them.) Yet in all that time, how
>many vendors have packaged the BCs with their compiler? By my count, that
>number would look amazingly a lot like "zero" (correct my count if you know
..
>Ignorant (of the existence of the BCs.) I've got to believe there is some
>reason they don't already do this. (Quality? Implied willingness to support?
>Implied endorsement? Insufficient components/documentation? Waiting for a
>winner to emerge? Product distinction? Not Invented Here?)

More likely, they didn't want to have to worry about support calls relating to
it.

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