Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!ria!uwovax!2011_552
From: 2011_552@uwovax.uwo.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: DOS 640K barrier?
Message-ID: <5709.262458f7@uwovax.uwo.ca>
Date: 12 Apr 90 14:31:19 GMT
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In article <2624014d:139.1comp.sys.ibm.pc;1@tronsbox.UUCP>, akcs.reed@tronsbox.UUCP (reed) writes:
> Hmm, well no-ones abolished the direct 640 Kb limit under MS-DOS, yet. The
> extenders ARE quite expensive, from $2400 on up if I remember correctly. And
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> the only languages supported (by Microsoft) for OS/2 are C and assembler.
> Unless someone knows better than me, sounds like you're out of luck in those
> areas.

Prices in US dollars 
(as of the April 1990 issue of _Personal_Workstations_):

   Phar Lap Tools (Dos-extender for 386):    $495
   MicroWay (Fortran, C, Pascal)        :    $595 each
       (386 dos extender versions)

At least 5 other dos-extended 386 fortrans are available; at least 3 other
dos-extended 386 c compilers are available.  (I believe the Microway
compilers are at the low-price end; as always, check to be sure that the
compiler will be able to handle your tasks.)

Phar Lap also makes a virtual memory extension (VMM) for their dos-extender
(additional $295); VMM versions of the Microway languages are $100 extra
(each).
-- 
Terry Gaetz         --   gaetz@uwovax.uwo.ca   --   gaetz@uwovax.bitnet