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The product has yet to show up. No one, from this outside vendor, and Amazon could/would give me straight answers. No tracking information provided, the 'manager' or some random teen from this outside vendor, used caps in the email, saying he did not have to tell me anything about his company, when I asked what was going on, where is my item, what is the tracking number, what is your phone number? Absolutley nothing. Any legite company would give correct, contact information, if anything a tracking number. Emails as the only contact, is bogus. That is not customer service. This mysterious individual claims it's on its way. It's now a week late. And still, NO tracking information. I am not expecting anything grand. I am far from being impressed now. With my luck, it's a piece of crap. Used or not, the service is horrible, will never go through them again.

I purchased this item in order to load a decent compiler on an old Windows 95 machine...why DOS? Well, I am making my way through some classic game programming books (see Andre LaMothe) that require that you fiddle with the assembler and "own the hardware." It is a great experience in understanding what it took to create games like Doom and Quake when you had to code to the metal. This compiler is sweet and easy to use. I wish the tools (IDE) today were as straightforward and simple to use. I am not sure how many people want to go way back in time ...it would be purely for personal satisfication to code the old-fashioned way. I wonder how I missed the boat the first time around. This is a great product for its time.