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From: curt@cctb.wa.com (Curt Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: Using Borland C++
Message-ID: <90649kbn@cctb.wa.com>
Date: 12 Apr 91 21:12:15 GMT
References: <1991Apr5.171426.28904@SanDiego.NCR.COM> <1038@stewart.UUCP> <1991Apr11.162855.10164@SanDiego.NCR.COM>
Organization: Chemical Computer Thinking Battery, Redmond, WA
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In article <1991Apr11.162855.10164@SanDiego.NCR.COM> davel@booboo.SanDiego.NCR.COM (David Lord) writes:
| davel@booboo.SanDiego.NCR.COM (David Lord) (that's me!) writes:
| 
| >1) Linking even a minimal Windows program on my 386SX takes twenty minutes.
| >   Using Hyperdisk in Staged Write mode will cut the time down to about five.
| 
| I've gotten about a zillion suggestions on how to make this go faster...
| 
| Other suggestions I have received:
| ...
| 3) Run BCX (protected mode compiler).
| 
| 	This means running Windows in REAL mode...
				      ^^^^
RT*M.

Load TKERNEL (see the manual for the proper parameters)
Load Windows in STANDARD mode (win /s)
Run BCX

This is very fast on my computer (386/33, 8M ram)


Curt Johnson == curt@cctb.wa.com