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- From: grantp@usa.pipeline.com(Pete)
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- Subject: Re: Visual C++ and DOS
- Date: 31 Jan 1996 18:02:30 GMT
- Organization: Kalevi, Inc.
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- On Jan 30, 1996 16:22:51 in article <Visual C++ and DOS>, 'Karl Young
- <kyoung@itsa.ucsf.edu>' wrote:
-
-
- >I have only used C++ in Unix (i.e. g++) and am thinking
- >about purchasing Visual C++ but had a couple of questions.
- >Firstly, I'll be getting the NT version and I wanted to
- >know if I could build programs that could be compiled for
- >older, 16-bit versions of Windows like WFWG 3.1.1 with
- >the current version of VC++ for NT.
- >
- MSVC++ versions 2.0 and higher do not support the production
- of 16-bit executables; however, the professional version (at
- least) includes the CD for version 1.52 which is a 16-bit
- system. According to theory, you can run MSVC 1.52 on
- your NT machine, although I never could. (Not that I
- tried really hard since it was just as easy to install on
- an old Windows machine).
-
- >Secondly I'm going to write a couple of programs that will
- >run on very old, very slow 386 machines, that need to talk
- >to the hardware (specifically the parallel port) and on which
- >I won't want to run any flavor of Windows. Can I use VC++
- >for NT to write code for DOS (and beyond my wildest dreams
- >that would have some routines for putting up primitive
- >menus and the like in DOS) or should I just dig up a used
- >copy of Turbo C or the like for doing that ?
- >
- Again, MSVC++ 1.52 is capable of accomplishing the
- above tasks, however, if you can get your hands on one of
- Borland's compilers, you're better off, IMHO. Frankly, I
- would suggest getting Borland's latest (4.53), or Watcom's
- (10.5) as they support multi-platform development much
- better.
-
- --
- Pete Grant
- Kalevi, Inc.
- Object Oriented Software Development
-