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From: doug@proto.com (Doug Huffman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Intel 386 C
Message-ID: <1991Jun17.020201.14746@proto.com>
Date: 17 Jun 91 02:02:01 GMT
References: <1991Jun14.161614.2277@inferno.peri.com>
Organization: Prototronics @ Sandpoint, Idaho
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shane@inferno.peri.com (Shane Bouslough) writes:

>I don't have all the particulars becuase it's just about to be
>released, but the new Zortech C++ compiler (3.0) also as royalty
>free DOS extender technology. I believe it even works on 286 too.
>I think it has a 16MB limit. They've been working with a DOS extender
>company for a while for making their compiler a DOS extender application,
>so perhaps they just lisenced the technology for their customers. Nice!

There are two separate DOS extenders.  One is for the 286 and is licensed
from Rational Systems.  The resultant executable will (of course) run on
386 machines.  The other is for the 386 and will run only on 386's and 486's
and is licensed from me.  The 386 one has a 64 MB limit under DOS and VCPI
because the BIOS returns the number of K bytes of extended memory available 
in a 16 bit register, under DPMI you have less because things are different
... (understatement of the month).

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