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- From: jp-morri@csm.uwe.ac.uk (J Morris)
- Subject: Re: Borland C++ 5.0 PRICE-E!!!
- Message-ID: <1996Feb20.142539.14223@pat.uwe.ac.uk>
- To: z929171@cs.niu.edu (kim sang woo)
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- Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 14:25:39 GMT
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- In article <4gcfi7$log@mp.cs.niu.edu>, z929171@cs.niu.edu (kim sang woo) writes:
- > Matt Arnold (marnold@netcom.com) wrote:
- > : Bruce Bainbridge <blbainb@indirect.com> writes:
- >
- > : >It seems Borland has eliminated DOS support. Is this true?
- >
- > : No.
- >
- > From developer point of view, BC++ eleminated DOS support long time ago.
- > Borland C++ v3.1 out performs BC++ v4.0/4.5 when it comes to targeting
- > DOS application. It is true that BC++ still let you target DOS, but it is
- > totally useless unless you are developing dos extended application.
- >
- > I don't care if I don't have IDE for DOS, but I cannot stand it when my
- > 15K application takes 50K to run (esp. with DOS, you only have 640K to work with)
- >
- >
-
- I agree completely.
- I use BC V4.5 for developing DPMI applications, and V2.0 for developing
- DOS programs. V2 is much faster, nicer and the resulting code is MUCH smaller
- that it would be under 4.5.
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