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> From: AndrewJ <luminous-is AT REMOVE DOT home DOT com>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 12:26:49 GMT
>
> I knew about Watcom all
> the way back in '92 or so, since we used it on the QNX machines in high school.
> I didn't know about GNU and the FSF until I got Linux in 1997, and DJGPP until
> about 1998 (when I bought the first Dr. Dobbs alternative languages CD).  The
> other GNU software I learned about after finding out about DJGPP (the CD
> distribution was lacking some bits).  Of course, that's just my timeline of
> when I learned about the respective products.

Exactly.  I first heard about DJGPP around 1991, but couldn't use it
because I didn't have a 386 back then.  I began using it in 1993.

As for GCC and other GNU software, I was using it on Unix since about
1988, if I'm not mistaken.

I guess it's a question which forums and which journals do you read.
For example, The C User's Journal was advertising DJGPP in its CUG
collection from day one (1989 or thereabouts); that's how I learned
about it.