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From: aew@eosvcr.wimsey.bc.ca (Alan Walford)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: YAPLC: Yet Another Person Looking  for a Compiler
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Date: 19 Nov 90 17:54:07 GMT
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Organization: Eos Systems Inc, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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Any advise would be very helpful to me and other netters. I expect other
people are in the same boat as I am and are having trouble decided which
compiler/operating system to use. This seems to be a common thread in the
news group.


My Basic requirement:

  I want to develop a window based application in C++ on a 386, 486 machine
  that uses large amounts of memory with arrays often exceeding 64k bytes
  in size.

I have Zortech 2.0 now and I am thinking of upgrading it so that I can 
better handle my requirements but ...

1) For an operating system I can't decide on OS/2 and PM or 
   Windows 3.0 and Dos.

2) Which version of Zortech should I purchase ?  Are the Dos version
   and OS/2 version's significantly different ? What does the 32bit
   version do that the others don't ?

3) If I start my development for Windows 3.0, I should just buy the
   Ver 2.1 for DOS compiler/professional kit from Zortech, correct ?

4) If I later decided that want to develop for PM and OS/2 instead
   what would I need to do ?  Would it be an expensive upgrade ?  Microsoft
   mentions converters to help port Windows 3.0 code to PM. Do
   these work with MS C only or will they work with Zortech C++ also ?

5) Am I going to have any trouble developing for Windows 3.0 using 
   Zortech C++ and a DOS extender such as Rational Systems ?
   
6) Will a DOS extender that works with Zortech allow me easy access to large
   arrays (80K-2M) under Windows ?
   
I have Zortech Professional Kit 2.0 now and like it very much except for its 
limitations on program size which are now removed in 2.1 !  I found Zed a 
little buggy when running in Dos box under Windows but I imagine that is
fixed in 2.1.

Overall a wonderful product :-) !

Thanks for any feedback.

Alan Walford
Eos Systems Inc
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