Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!imspw6!bob
From: bob@imspw6.UUCP (Bob Burch)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: DOS multi-tasking with Zortech C++
Keywords: DDJ
Message-ID: <217@imspw6.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jan 89 12:36:19 GMT
Organization: IMS Inc., Rockville, MD
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There is a nifty article concerning DOS multi-tasking using the Zortech
compiler in the Feb. 89 issue of the Dobbs Journal.  Not that it hasn't
been done before, but apparently it can be done with a notable gain in
elegance and simplicity using C++.  The author, a Mr. Tom Green, mentions
a couple of "unfortunatelys", the compiler not generating inline code in
all instances, and an error in attempting to get the segment of a near
function pointer, forcing the use of the small model.  Perhaps, Mr. Bright
could indicate whether these have been fixed with the current version, as
I would assume the project in the article was some time in the works and 
might have been done with something previous to 1.07.  At any rate, 
evidence is mounting that the Zortech compiler is a major league tool with
major league possibilities.

Ted Holden
HTE