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- From: joe@proto.com (Joe Huffman)
- Subject: Re: Dumb questions about Borland C++
- Organization: Prototronics @ Sandpoint, Idaho
- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 07:10:46 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug15.071046.9857@proto.com>
- References: <q!3m8wf.sjk@netcom.com> <1992Aug13.152405.16170@ucc.su.OZ.AU> <593@lax.lax.pe-nelson.com>
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- twbrown@PE-Nelson.COM (Tom W. Brown) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Aug13.152405.16170@ucc.su.OZ.AU>, maxtal@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (John MAX Skaller) writes:
- >|> In article <q!3m8wf.sjk@netcom.com> sjk@netcom.com (Shel Kaphan) writes:
- >|> >I've been trying to port some programs written for a Unix C compiler
- >|> >to Borland C/C++, and have a few questions:
- >|> >[...stuff deleted...]
- >|> >- Is there no memory model on the PC in which the stack can occupy
- >|> >more than 64K bytes? (more wishful thinking, I know ... don't flame me.)
- >|> >Don't ask why I care.
- >|>
- >|> No. Its only a 16 bit machine. And the 386 still
- >|> runs 16 bit operating systems.
-
- >Wait for NT and then wait for Borland to release their compiler support for
- >it (better get a deck of cards or something while you're waiting :-)
-
- Borland has announced the will support OS/2 2.0, which is a 32-bit system,
- later this year. That will almost certainly come out before the NT support.
-
- If you want 32-bit DOS support, buy any one of the 32-bit DOS compilers
- and their companion DOS extenders on the market. For C++ there is
- Metaware and Zortech. For C you have the added choice of Watcom. These
- compilers will allow you to produce a 32-bit executable, complete with
- virtual memory transparent to the progammer, and run it under 16-bit
- DOS on '386 and above machines. It's quite a thrill to be able to request
- a memory allocation of 10 Mbytes under DOS and have it come back
- successful. Your stack can could just as easily be quite large also...
-
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