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From: lmiller@venera.isi.edu (Larry Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Turbo upgrade
Message-ID: <4515@venera.isi.edu>
Date: 12 Jan 88 17:53:23 GMT
References: <11201@brl-adm.ARPA>
Reply-To: lmiller@venera.isi.edu.UUCP (Larry Miller)
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In article <11201@brl-adm.ARPA> TLIMONCE%DREW.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU writes:
>Someone stated that Turbo C 1.5 is advertised as shipping but it
>is actually not.  He asked if MS is "as bad."

For what it's worth, I called Borland when I first saw the
announcement on the 1.5 upgrade, and they shipped it to be within a
week.

The graphics library is really a low level set of device drivers for
drawing primitives such as lines, circles, arcs, etc.  It most
certainly is not GKS, or CORE, etc.  BUT the support of a wide range
of graphics boards is nice.  There have been discussions on info-pc
that indicate how difficult it can be to auto-detect which board you
have installed.

For anyone thinking about doing graphics with Turbo C 1.5, a good
graphics text is still an absolute must (e.g., Foley & VanDam).

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