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From: lorner@ecst.csuchico.edu (Lance Orner)
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Subject: Re: SoftPC performances
Message-ID: <1990Nov21.012514.4549@ecst.csuchico.edu>
Date: 21 Nov 90 01:25:14 GMT
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In article <1990Nov20.192914.8540@cs.umn.edu> alberti@cs.umn.edu (Albatross) writes:
>I ran Borland's Turbo C++ on SoftPC and to my surprise, it worked.  I'm
>pretty impressed with SoftPC.

For a class, I run Borlands's Turbo Debugger package on SoftPC.  When I first
ran it, it took hours to figure out that the reason it  crashes every time
I ran the debugger is because the program must be playing some wierd tricks
with the monitor, and SoftPC can't pick it up.  To run the debugger, you must
use a -ds flag which says use "screen swaping" which it recommends for wierd
monitor setups.  I thought that SoftPC is supposed to emulate a CGA monitor.
I can't run the configuration program for, I belive, the same reason, but
in this case, I can't tell it to get ready for a "weird monitor".

Add this to the fact that it runs the debugger _really_ slowly, I'm not sure
I'd say that this thing is flawless.

Otherwise, it hasn't balked at any of the assembly language stuff I've been
writing.

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