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From: aland@infmx.UUCP (Dr. Scump)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MSC 5.1 Under OS/2
Summary: sez who?
Message-ID: <2474@infmx.UUCP>
Date: 5 Oct 89 02:45:08 GMT
References: <2982@ndsuvax.UUCP| <7726@cg-atla.UUCP>
Reply-To: aland@infmx.UUCP (alan denney)
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In article <7726@cg-atla.UUCP| fredex@cg-atla.UUCP (Fred Smith) writes:
|In article <2982@ndsuvax.UUCP> ncperson@ndsuvax.UUCP (Brett G. Person) writes:
|>I'm considering making the jump to OS/2.  Whar I'd like to know is what
|>version of Microsoft C do I need to get to write code under OS/2.  Will MSC
|>5.x work for the Presentation Manager code, or do I need to buy a special
|>version of the compiler? 
|>
|>Thanks
|>Brett G. Person
|
|The "official" C compiler for OS/2 is MSC 5.1. When I got my upgrade from 5.0

As far as IBM OS/2 is concerned, the "official" compiler is IBM C/2.

Note that OS/2 1.0 shipped before MS C 5.1, with its dual-mode support, did.

|to 5.1 I was offered the opportunity to buy just the DOS part of the package as
|the upgrade, or the whole thing with OS/2 support, so it is possible to have 5.1
|and not have OS/2 support. I have no knowledge as to whether it is possible to buy
|the package off the shelf with only DOS support, but I would guess that the 
|package you buy in the store contains the "whole thing". 
|
|See your local software dealer (or Microsoft) with questions.
|good luck!
|Fred

Yeah, it was $25 for real-mode only and $75 for dual-mode, if I remember right.

Does anybody know what the "official" C compiler was for the other OEM's 
versions of OS/2 1.0 (e.g. Zenith, etc.)

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