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From: KUO@oregon.uoregon.edu (Shijong Kuo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: Microsoft C 6.0 - When avail & how much?
Message-ID: <18953@oregon.uoregon.edu>
Date: 12 Apr 90 03:07:42 GMT
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In article <82Eq02wy9bX=01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>, dacseg@uts.amdahl.com (Scott E. Garfinkle) writes:
> From article <8580@cg-atla.agfa.com>, by fredex@cg-atla.agfa.com (Fred Smith):
>> 1.2 meg floppies ???   Does this mean that Microsoft is officially 
>> abandoning those of us poor folk who still have only 360k drives???
> 
> No.  My upgrade offer (just got it) says that MSC is also available on
> 3.5" disks (two densities).
> 	-scott garfinkle
yes, 360k is still available, I did not specify which, so I guess they chose to
send me 1.2meg, which shoud save them a few cents. But 20+ 360 k floppies is
very cumbersome. The new cv can use extended memory thru himem.sys (new version
compatible with win3.0 , but not win 2.x; there is rumor that win 3.0 will be
$50.) I played with PWB( programmer's workbench) a little bit. I can get
qemm.sys and himem.sys installed peaceflly. I expect problems to occur when I
try to use CV, which I did not yet tried. himem.sys seems to drag the system
down by a couple of per cent, but it seems "MAYBE" I can still use DV with PWB
to some extent. So I don't yet what specific imcompatibilities will occur. Also 
following MS's tradition, only the additional new manual and supplements came
for this $125 upgrade. But there is a new book detaling the run-time library
for 22.95.
kuo@oregon.uoregon.edu