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From: jamiller@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com (Jim Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: NIH class libraries for Turbo C++
Message-ID: <7050036@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com>
Date: 16 Nov 90 18:44:49 GMT
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>                                   Then again, can a DOS box effectively run
>programs that something as big as NIHCL is needed for?

A 16Meg 386 or 486 should be able to handle most anything.
Under the present MS-DOS you need extenders, but my guess is that
sometime in the next couple of years MicroSoft will break the 640kb
barrier and give/allow the mult-MegB liner address space.

In short, MS-DOS on the new mini machines (the 486's are not micros) is not
dead now, and will probably stay with or ahead of the needs of MOST
customers.  The program developers may always complain, but they have been
able to deliver amazing products in what in 1982 was a large address space
and now is considered "tiny".  (In 1982 if anyone said that 640Kb was
"small" was out of their heads).

   jim - why in the world am I defending MS-DOS ?!? - miller