Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!phri!dasys1!manes
From: manes@dasys1.UUCP (Steve Manes)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: turboc ega
Message-ID: <2387@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: 28 Dec 87 10:34:09 GMT
References: <2590@killer.UUCP>
Reply-To: manes@dasys1.UUCP (Steve Manes)
Organization: Datamerica Systems, NYC
Lines: 31
Keywords: tc ega

In article <2590@killer.UUCP> dono@killer.UUCP (Don OConnell) writes:
>     I also own MSC 5 compiler and Turbo C compilers as well as an ATI ega 
>wonder and true ega monitor. I have not seen the troubles mentioned in the 
>part of the letter cited. I have been using the Turbo C compiler for 2 months
>and have even compiled the MicroEmacs editor and use it daily with no trouble.
>
>     This letter is just to set the record straight on Turbo C. 

Thanks, I'll let my EGA know.  No, most people aren't experiencing this
Turbo/EGA problem.  I don't think that Borland would have released it
without a fair amount of in-house and field beta testing.  Nevertheless,
the problem exists with my setup (a Mitsuba SEGA + 10mHz AT clone) and with
a few other folks who have reported similar troubles.  The problem is not
the compiling (although a friend says Turbo crashes during compile on his
Leading Edge AT).  I got MicroEMACS to compile with Turbo without a hitch.
The problem is running the executable.  A few lines are displayed and the
machine goes to lunch.  Compile the same code with MS-C and it works.
I've gotten the same results with a couple of other programs I wrote and
compiled using Turbo.

The problem doesn't APPEAR to be in Turbo's display library since one of
those programs that crashes does so during a direct-to-video RAM screen
update.  The bug may indeed be in the Mitsuba board itself but I've been
running it for almost 18 months and this is the first time I've encountered
such strange behavior from it.

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