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- From: dave@borland.com (Dave Draper)
- Subject: Re: BC++ for OS/2 announced.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.003901.27719@borland.com>
- Originator: dave@genghis.borland.com
- Sender: news@borland.com (News Admin)
- Organization: Borland International
- References: <Bxq9z6.HsJ@ecf.toronto.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 00:39:01 GMT
- Lines: 115
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- The following post is INCORRECT. Borland C++ for OS/2 HAS NOT BEEN RELEASED!
- While it is true that BC++ for OS/2 is under development it has not been
- released and I cannot say when it will be.
-
- - Dave Draper
- Senior Engineer - Debugger & Tools for OS/2
- Borland International
-
-
- In article <Bxq9z6.HsJ@ecf.toronto.edu> kumarad@ecf.toronto.edu (KUMARADAS JOSEPH CARL) writes:
- >I got this from a net in Canada:
- >
- >──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- > Date: 11-05-92, 16:06 Number: 21589
- > From: COLIN BOWERN Refer: 0
- > To: ALL Recvd: No
- > Subj: BORLAND C++ OS/2 Conf: I-OS/2
- >──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- >Announcing Borland C++ for OS/2!
- >================================
- >The Professional C and C++ Development System for OS/2
- >
- > Borland C++ for OS/2 features a 32-bit optimizing C and C++ compiler, a
- >Presentation Manager-hosted intergrated Development Environment (IDE), Turbo
- >Debugger, and all the tools necessary to support OS/2 2.0 applications
- >development.
- >
- >32-BIT GLOBALLY OPTIMIZED C++
- > The full power of 32-bit object-oriented programming is yours with the
- >Borland C++ compiler, which offeres nested classes and templates compatable
- >with AT&T's cfront 3.0. Borland C++ also features state-of-the-art
- >optimizations that dramtically improve the performance of applications. And
- >precompiled headers significantly shorten application compilation time.
- >
- >DEVELOP, DEBUG, AND RUN YOU PROGRAMS FROM WITHIN PRESENTATION MANAGE
- > The Presentation Manager-hosted Intergrated Development Environment of
- >Borland C++ for OS/2 allow programmers to create, edit, compile, debug, and
- >run their applications from within Presentation Manager (PM). The IDE includes
- >powerfulmulti-window editing, background compilation, intergrated debugging
- >and color sytanx highlighting.
- >
- > The IDE features the ObjectBrowsor, which graphically displays the
- >realationships objects in an application. ObjectBrowser displays releationships
- >in an intuitive "tree" manner, making it easy to understand and to navigate
- >through you code. The IDE's SpeedBar provides a set of icons that give quick
- >access to commonly used menu selections. And the SpeedBar changes dynamically
- >to reflect what you're doing in the IDE. the Borland C++ IDE is designed to
- >maximize efficiency and productivity during the development process.
- >
- >EVERYTHING YOU NEED FOR OS/2 APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT
- > Borland C++ gives you everything you need to create robust sophisticated
- >PM and OS/2 applications. Resource Workshop lets you visually create and
- >maintain PM resources such as bitmaps and dialogs. The all-new Turbo Debugger
- >lets you graphically debug your applications including multithreaded
- >applications.
- >
- > Borland is the leader in object-oriented technology and Boralnd C++ for
- >OS/2 is the primier professional 32-bit C and C++ toolset for OS/2.
- >
- >FEATURES
- > * C++ compatible with AT&T cfront 3.0, complete with templates and nested
- > classes
- > * ANSI C
- > * 32-bit global optimizations, including
- > - Dead storage elimination
- > - Local and global command subexpressions
- > - Global register allocation
- > - Intrinsic expansion
- > * Presentation Manager-hosted IDE
- > * Environment creates PM and character-mode OS/2 applications
- > * Project Manager provides for visual MAKE
- > * Settings Notebook improves options control
- > * Background compilation increases productivity
- > * Color syntax highlighting makes code more readable
- > * Support for multithreading exploits OS/2
- > * Integrated and standalone GUI debugging
- > * Visual debugging, with
- > - breakpoints - messagepoints
- > - datapoints - exceptionpoints
- > * Hard and soft-mode debugging
- > * Point-and-click interactive interface
- > * Full support for OS/2 2.0 application development
- > - Resource and help compilers
- > - Online PM API reference
- > - Sample OS/2 and PM applications in C and C++
- > * Runtime libraries
- > - RTL provided as a DLL
- > - UNIX compatablility functions
- > - More than 450 functions
- > * Precompiled headers
- > * ObjectBrowser and SpeedBar
- > * Turbo Assembler
- > * Class libraries, including streams, complex numbers, and collections
- > * The Borland C++ IDE include multi-widow editing, background compilations,
- > integrated debugging, SpeedBar, ObjectBrowser, and color syntax highlighting
- >
- >Minimun system recommendations:
- >8-Mb, 20MHz 386sx with 100-Mb hard disk, mouse, and VGA resolution.
- >
- >(C) 1992 Borland International, Inc.
- >
- > COLiN
- >---
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- >
- >──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-
-
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- Dave Draper |
- Senior Engineer - Debugger & Tools | Losers make excuses,
- Borland International | Winners make it happen!
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