D beyond the specs

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Friday, 16 March 2018 at 22:43:57 UTC, Chris wrote:
> Most interesting! I'm not kidding. Is it 'wow it's from the 
> US', or something else? Genuine question. I ain't asking for 
> fun. There's more to business and technology than meets the eye.

I don't know about compilers specifically, but the big 
distributors in Europe charged some hefty margins on their 
imports. So pricing in US was often much lower than here...

So smaller competitors with ads in national hobbyist computing 
mags had a relatively easy marketing channel.