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From: rmarks@KSP.Unisys.COM (Richard Marks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Use UNIX for MSDOS development?
Message-ID: <710@bbking.KSP.Unisys.COM>
Date: 1 Sep 89 13:51:03 GMT
References: <21714@cup.portal.com>
Organization: Unisys/Knowledge Systems Projects, Frazer, PA
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In article <21714@cup.portal.com> cliffhanger@cup.portal.com (Cliff C Heyer) writes:
>Wondered if it's advisable to develop
>MS DOS applications (in C) using UNIX
>rather than MSDOS.(assuming 386, 6+MB, etc)
>It seems multitasking, etc., would be of
>help to increase productivity...

I think that the interactive debugging capabilities available under
TurboC are an order or magnitude superior to what is on Unix.  In
fact I develop on MS-DOS and then port to Unix.

Richard Marks
rmarks@KSP.unisys.COM