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From: dubose_b@wums.wustl.edu (Bob DuBose)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: MSC 6.0, WIN 3.0, QuickC?
Message-ID: <3485.26374fd4@wums.wustl.edu>
Date: 27 Apr 90 00:45:23 GMT
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In article <6429@umd5.umd.edu>, oppenhei@umd5.umd.edu (Richard Oppenheimer)
writes:
> MSC 6.0 is supposed to (like its predecessor) include Quick C. The version of
> QC is 2.5 I believe. QC only users are also suppossed to get upgrade notices 
> soon. If you bought both seperately, I suggest getting the upgrade to MSC 6
> and see what it contains.... [remaining deleted]

    The MSC upgrade includes the QC compiler (invoked via the /qc command
    line switch), but not the QC integrated environment.  For that they
    have the PWB (Programmer's Workbench), to control development,
    compilation, etc.  PWB, however, is EXTREMELY slow on DOS systems, even
    w/ a hefty ramdisk and disk cache.  It spends much of its time swapping
    itself in and out of memory when the compiler, debugger, etc. are
    invoked.  Apparently this isn't so much a problem on OS/2 systems.

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Bob DuBose                           dubose_b@wums.wustl.edu
Department of Genetics                    bdb@agar.wustl.edu
Washington University in St. Louis
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