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- From: nate@miki.lcs.mit.edu (Nathan Liskov)
- Subject: Re: Borland Pascal 7.0
- Message-ID: <1992Dec11.184910.19896@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
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- Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
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- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 18:49:10 GMT
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- In article <27799@dog.ee.lbl.gov> rob@cad4.lbl.gov (Robert J. McNamara) writes:
- >
- >I seem to remember reading in one of the OS/2 groups that you can
- >produce OS/2 1.x binaries with borland pascal 7.0...16-bit executables.
- >Is this true? If so, whats the process?
- >thanks...
- >
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- > Rob McNamara - rob@cad4.lbl.gov - LBL EE CAD/CAE software support
- > Register & Vote Green!
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- Borland BP7 provides a protected mode compiler based on the DPMI 0.9
- specification. It may be that OS/2 1.x binaries are also compatible
- with the DPMI standard. However, BP7 code will definitely not run
- in an OS2 window under OS/2 2.0. It is not an OS2 compiler.
-
- Protected code generated with BP7 will run in a DOS window under
- OS2 2.0. Under real DOS, Borland provides a run time manager to
- execute the protected mode program - I have not tried this yet.
-
- The advantage of the protected mode compiler is that one can break
- the 640 K barrier. However, there still is a 64 k restriction on
- a given variable.
-
- Happy computing... Nate Liskov
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