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From: yeates@motcid.UUCP (Tony J Yeates)
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Subject: Re: Borland C++ 2.0
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Date: 26 Feb 91 19:13:59 GMT
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dsampson@x102a.harris-atd.com (sampson david 58163) writes:
> The windows debugger IS a windows
>application, and YES!!! you can debug with only one monitor.  However
>they tell you in the manual that if you're using VGA, they support
>standard VGA, not super or the psuedo 8514 resolution you can get with
>the drivers floating around now.

Pardon my ignorance, but I thought a major benefit of windows applications
was that they used library routines which make them display-independent.  
(...or was the author refering to the DOS debugger?).  Other windows
applications seem to run on anything as long as it has a windows driver..
whats the deal with the debugger?