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- From: Grady Dill <gndill@ix.netcom.com>
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- Subject: Re: NEW at this! Should I buy BC5.0 or MS VC++ver4.0? and which supports TURBO VISION? Please give me a your opinion!
- Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 23:13:23 -0500
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- John Hiett wrote:
- >
- > Please tell me what you think.... which do you think is best???
- >
- > please post and email to jhh@asu.edu
- >
- > THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-
- John,
-
- I'm not familiar with Turbo Vision so I can't comment on that.
-
- I've used MSVC++ 2.0 in the past and found it to be pretty good
- and easy to work with. I don't know anything about 4.0, I changed
- employers right before it came out on the market.
-
- As for BC++ 5.0 ... call Orkin. I recently received it and haven't
- been totatlly impressed with it. Their 4.52 version was very stable
- in comparison to 5.0. If you get the 5.0 you'll also need to get
- Patch 1 from Borland (www.borland.com) and apply the patch BEFORE
- you invoke the product. I've got a 486DX2-66 w/ 16M of RAM and over
- 2G of diskspace on 3 drives and it is slooooooow. I'm considering
- sending it back and sticking with the 4.52 unless they can send out
- some patches that correct the problems or provide a complete
- updated/fixed version on CD. Take a stroll through the
- comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools.owl and check out all the
- complaints about 5.0. I'm convinced their pusing the OLE/COM envelope
- with this product and threw in a pretty good bit of multithreading
- also. I think the slowness is due more to the OLE/COM side of things
- than anything else because it hits my C-drive like crazy when accessing
- the Win95 registry (product installed on my 1.62G E-drive). Hopefully
- Borland will provide a solution soon, otherwise I'll be tempted to
- migrate toward the Microsoft C++ compiler.
-
- Grady
-