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- From: afn03257@freenet2.afn.org (Daniel P Hudson)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,rec.games.programmer,alt.msdos.programmer,comp.programming
- Subject: Re: Young programmers read me.
- Date: 16 Apr 1996 23:38:54 GMT
- Message-ID: <4l1b2e$449@huron.eel.ufl.edu>
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- In <850.6679T1168T2286@mbox.vol.it>, bizzetti@mbox.vol.it (Fabio Bizzetti)
- wrote:
-
- >>>> >Definitely not. For example, PowerBasic is a full-featured
- >>>> >programming language. It can be used to write "real" applications.
- >>>> >
- >>>> Don't know about PowerBasic, but Visual Basic is a piece of shit.
- >>>>
- >>>
- >>> Yes, I agree VB is shit, but PowerBasic is quite different.
-
- >>Yep, If PowerBASIC could do a flat memory model (I know it's in the works), I
- >>would still be using BASIC, I think it's compareable to any 16bit C compiler.
-
-
- >Please explain this point, I only programmed full 32bits CPUs untill now, and
- >I dont understand how i.e. PowerBASIC doesn't support "flat memory model".
- >Do we have max 64K for arrays? ;) I dont think so..
- >so what's the problem? Maybe the Peek instruction has a 64K segmentation?
-
- Do you have 4GB Max arrays? I don't think so. PB uses dynamic memory
- allocation for most array's and ergo your limit is whatever is free of the
- 640KB base memory. Its like using the huge model in TC.
-
- >If one wants to code for 486/586, how to code using always 32bit addresses? :P
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- Protected mode.
-