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From: george@hobbes.ncsu.edu (George Browning)
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Subject: Re: Borland C++
Message-ID: <1991Feb22.031303.2055@ncsu.edu>
Date: 22 Feb 91 03:13:03 GMT
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In article <1991Feb20.231025.7836@news.cs.indiana.edu> bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante) writes:
>I just got an upgrade offer to "Borland C++", available for Turbo C and
>Turbo C++.  Anybody know anything about this?  They're talking a lot about
>Windows support; does it work in simple, non-Windows environments?  (I hope
>so!)  How does it compare to Turbo C++ ?

From what I hear:
   - Borland C++ is the new professional package (thus the price)
   - Turbo C++ is going to be the entry level package
   - Borland C++ can create both DOS apps and Windows 3.0 apps/dlls
   - It includes the Whitewater Resource Toolkit for resource editing
   - Can compile using extended memory for larger modules
   - Features pre-compiled header files for fast recompilations
   - I think the Windows debugger runs in its own screen
     In other words: you flip between the Windows screen and this
     debugger text screen.  However, I'm not sure about this.
   - Requires something like 12 meg of disk space
   - RAM requirements depend on what you want to do:
     2 meg for Windows development
     1 meg for protected mode compiling (this doesn't mean 386
     mode applications -- just the compiler can make use of more
     memory I think)

Please correct any of these if they are wrong -- I've just been
reading the info on GEnie!!!  Borland is supposed to send me some
info any day now.

george

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