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From: david@csource.oz.au (david nugent)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: C compiler for multitasking?
Message-ID: <754@csource.oz.au>
Date: 8 Nov 90 12:21:11 GMT
References: <1990Nov6.023219.18942@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <11414@hubcap.clemson.edu>
Organization: Unique Computing Pty Ltd, Melb, Aust.
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In <11414@hubcap.clemson.edu> lsalomo@hubcap.clemson.edu (lsalomo) writes:

> From article <1990Nov6.023219.18942@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>, by leeda@cpsin3.cps.msu.edu (Dae Hee Lee):
>
> > I am interested in developing a multitasking program on 386 machine.
> > I could not find a C compiler to support it.
> > Is there anyone who can help me find it?

> If you're developing under DOS (I presume you are), there is a C compiler
> (Zortech, I believe) which contains a "beginthread"-like function.  The run-
> time library contains its own scheduler, which ran pretty impressively.  Also
> included (I was told by my colleague as he demo'd it to me) that a dynamic-
> linker is included also.

 
JPI's TopSpeed C also features this type of multitasking.  In fact, it's
implemented in a way which is compatible with OS/2 - they also produce an
OS/2 product.

Amongst other things, it has an _excellent_ optimiser and the ability to
link .DLLs, even under MS-DOS.


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