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Half of my C and C++ compiler sales were in Europe. The Mac did indeed lag far behind - Apple bet on the wrong horse (Pascal).


Europe has many countries, I can assure you that I only saw Zortech on magazines after it was acquired by Symantec and was shipping MFC alongside with it.

Sadly I never saw it anywhere on sale, as the graphical debugging for C++ data structures was quite cool to read about.


Britain and Germany saw the most sales. For reasons inexplicable to me, France bought very few compilers.


France had Minitel, so didn't need computers.




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