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From: siegel@world.std.com (Rich Siegel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Think Pascal/Think C/System 7
Message-ID: <1991May13.173429.12897@world.std.com>
Date: 13 May 91 17:34:29 GMT
References: <53400@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <1991May13.092550.21150@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU>
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In article <1991May13.092550.21150@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU> kempkec@mist.CS.ORST.EDU (Christopher Kempke) writes:
>In article <53400@nigel.ee.udel.edu> johnston@minnie.me.udel.edu writes:
>>The accompanying
>>text in the digest posting notes that the 3.02 updater makes
>>Think Pascal "90%" 7.0 compatible, but says nothing about Think C.  
>>Pascal supposedly won't work with VM or 32-bit mode.
	
	The patch notest distributed with each patch describe only the
changes to that product; for details about the THINK C patch, read the
notes that come with the 4.0.5 updater.

>	Actually, if you unpack them, they both say the same thing, so
>	presumably they both make the same "mistake" to prevent VirMem
>	/32-bit clean operation.  Both supposedly produce 32-bit clean

	Actually, they don't. :-) Either way, there will be versions of
both products which are 100% compatible with virtual memory and 32-bit
MMU modes.

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