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- From: Conrad Herrmann <cherrmann@wpo.borland.com>
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- Subject: Re: Does Borland C++ 5.0 do Dos DPMI-32 (Does it include PowerPak for Dos)?
- Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 16:53:41 -0800
- Organization: Borland International
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- Jer wrote:
- > BC++ 5 is in essense a Windows
- > only compiler, as far as I know. The bundled BC++ 4.52 does not
- > support the latest features, as in name spaces, etc. Watcom on the
- > other hand upgraded everything. All their compilers support the latest
- > features. It upsets me that Borland has summarily decided to drop dos
- > development. I have many many programs that require maintenance that
- > will take years to convert to Win 95, or Win 3.1 for that matter, that
- > would benifit from the new C++ features and dos extension. Borland, I
- > guess, expects us to throw away millions of lines of code, just so
- > that we can upgrade to their new toy.
-
- I'm not familiar with Watcom, so I'll take your word for it.
-
- However, you have been misinformed about Borland C++ 5.0. BC
- 5.0 *does* support developing DOS, Win3.1 and Win32 apps, using
- the new compiler and language features and the IDE. Perhaps you
- are mistaking Borland's product for Microsoft's, which only
- supports building Win32 apps.
-
- The BC 5.0 IDE will only *run* on a Win32 platform, but that
- does not keep you from *targetting* apps for Win 3.1 or DOS.
- Since Windows NT is increasingly popular, supports running
- (most) DOS and Win3.1 applications, and is almost crash-proof,
- this is an ideal environment for developing from.
-
- Pretty much the only reason Borland decided to include BC 4.52
- was that there are still developers who want to use Win 3.1 to
- do development using the IDE, and since the CD-ROM space is
- practically free, we threw it on there to support them.
-
- -- Conrad Herrmann
- (Borland C++)
-