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From: rja@edison.GE.COM (rja)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Turbo C 2.0, EMS, and style
Message-ID: <1734@edison.GE.COM>
Date: 7 Dec 88 18:12:24 GMT
Organization: GE-Fanuc North America
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I keep reading all of this griping by people who want to compile
huge programs while they have various extra shells and tools 
loaded into RAM.  Frankly I haven't much patience with those
arguments.  Borland has a VERY GOOD product at a reasonable price.

1) If your program is too big, then cut it into smaller separately
  compiled modules.  Turbo C makes this easy with its 'make' either
  from the command-line or the integrated environment.  
  
  You should be doing this anyway just as a matter of good programming.

2) If you want to run custom shells, sidekick, and such all at the
  same time that is your choice, but  Borland  didn't write DOS and
  they shouldn't go around trying to rewrite it either.  If your
  environment is that intolerable put real UNIX on your machine and
  let it page virtual memory out to the hard disk.  It's cheap these
  days for '286 or '386 machines.

3) If you don't like any of the above, use the command-line versions
  of TC and get the stand-alone Turbo Debugger.  I'm sorry but the
  upgrade from Turbo C 1.5 to Professional Turbo C 2.0 was ONLY
  about $ 100.   That is still cheaper than anything Microsoft sells
  and frankly at that price it is a steal !

Disclaimer:  The above aren't necessarily the opinions of GE, Fanuc,
           or GE-Fanuc.  flames to /dev/null please.
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