It’s weird what you can find on the net sometimes. Or, maybe it isn’t; maybe it’s just fascinating.. or weird 🙂 Anyway, for all of those who take things for granted, here’s a discussion or summary of some developers’ comments regarding C/C++ compilers for the PC environment around 1991.
Things have moved a tad since then..
Article (web.archive.org)
(from comp.compilers)