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From: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: 386 questions
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Date: 19 Mar 88 20:29:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!mcdonald    Mar 19 14:29:00 1988


I'm looking for advice on using our new PS/2-80. I want to use the full
396 mode of the processor under DOS. I have heard of four products that
allow this, an assembler from Phar Lap ,a C compiler from Metaware,
and a C and a Fortran from Micro-Way.
First, are there any others? I need to be able to write large
( >640 k programs) without having to worry about segments. The 386
is clearly able to do this, but can it under those tools? Anyone
out there tried them? In particular I need to get full access to the
screen memory, IO addresses, and, very important, field interrupts
in my application code (assembly is ok; I don't need C for that).
Those products are super expensive, and I don't want to pay only
to not have them work. 

Doug McDonald (mcdonald@uiucuxe)