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- From: pete@borland.com (Pete Becker)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Does Borland C++ 5.0 do Dos DPMI-32 (Does it include PowerPak for Dos)?
- Date: 16 Mar 1996 20:34:51 GMT
- Organization: Borland International
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- In article <4hu20f$23@nnrp1.news.primenet.com>, jrice@primenet.com says...
- >
- >
- >Borland 5 does not support DPMI, thats why they bundle BC++ 4.52 with
- >BC++ 5. It does support it. However, in order to get DPMI extension
- >you still have to buy the Power Pack. 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.
- >
-
- Borland has not "sumarily decided to drop dos development". BC++ 5.0
- builds DOS applications, just like all previous versions have. What it does not
- do is build DPMI applications.
- The reason for including 4.52 in the package is to continue to provide
- a 16-bit hosted development environment. 5.0 is 32-bit hosted, but it supports
- development for both 16- and 32-bit targets.
- -- Pete
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