Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!microsoft!bobt
From: bobt@microsoft.UUCP (Bob TANIGUCHI)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: IBM C/2 1.1 with Windows?
Keywords: IBM C/2, SDK
Message-ID: <55816@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jul 90 18:27:41 GMT
References: <642@cvbnetPrime.COM>
Reply-To: bobt@microsoft.UUCP (Bob TANIGUCHI)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <642@cvbnetPrime.COM> jshekhel@feds19.UUCP (Jerry Shekhel ) writes:
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>Hello.  Does anyone know whether or not the IBM C/2 1.1 compiler
>can be used to develop windows applications?  This compiler is
>essentially identical to Microsoft C 5.1, except that it has
>a real "make" program, and it comes without some of the Microsoft
>stuff, like the Microsoft Editor and Quick C.  There's a /Gw flag,
>just like in MSC, and the documentation says that it's required
>for developing OS/2 PM programs; it says nothing anywhere about
>Windows.

Much as it's always the case when you OEM a product, the customer
has the right to change the product, hence, the differences you've
found.  This is analagous to the various value add features OEMs
have applied to DOS.  

I can say that we started with the same C 5.0 base, we moved on to
C 5.1, IBM did their thing.

Bob Taniguchi
Advanced Operating Systems Group
Microsoft