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- From: chris.lincoln@wugate.wustl.edu!travel (Chris Lincoln)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Borland 3.1 ext. mem. cap
- Message-ID: <4325.87.uupcb@wugate.wustl.edu!travel>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 06:22:00 GMT
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- Organization: Travel Online, St. Louis, MO, USA
- Reply-To: chris.lincoln@wugate.wustl.edu!travel (Chris Lincoln)
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- VA.From: rdw@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
- VA.Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- VA.Subject: Borland 3.1 ext. mem. capabilities?
- VA.Message-ID: <1992Jul21.174042.13890@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
- VA.Date: 21 Jul 92 21:40:42 GMT
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- VA.Dear fellow MS-DOS C programmers:
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- VA. I am a Microsoft C 6.0 user thinking of switching to Borland C++ 3.1. M
- VA.main concern is accessing about 7 megs of extended memory past the 640K limit
- VA.imposed by DOS. I am already using large linked lists rather than
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- VA.thoughts on or reactions to Borland's product would be much appreciated.
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- Borland C is just fine. I use both BC++ 3.1 and MSC/QC on a daily basis.
- FYI: Were you aware that MSC has included a suite of virtual memory
- allocation functions in the 7.0 RTL? (here, virtual memory means paging
- to EMS/XMS/Disk ). I haven't tried them on for speed, yet.
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