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- From: danpop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop)
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- Subject: Re: Differences: Turbo vs. Microsoft
- Date: 16 Apr 96 17:59:01 GMT
- Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics
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- In <16APR199607502310@erich.triumf.ca> bennett@erich.triumf.ca (P.Bennett) writes:
- >In article <1996Apr15.172003.140044@forest>, bburd@icosa.drew.edu (Barry Burd) writes...
- >>Can anyone point me to a writeup of the differences
- >>between the C that's in Turbo C++ and the C that's
- >>in Microsoft C (or Microsoft C++?)?
- >
- >Borland and Microsoft often use different names, and even argument order, for
- >equivalent MS-DOS-specific functions, and I think the graphic libraries
- >provided by the two companies are quite different.
-
- And to really answer the question of the original poster: there is no
- difference between the C that's in Turbo C and the C that's in
- Microsoft C. The differences arise when the two implementations deal with
- features that have nothing to do with the C language.
-
- Dan
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