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From: henry@Apple.COM (Peter Henry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,alt.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: 386 instructions
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Date: 12 Jan 90 00:08:32 GMT
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In article <580@watserv1.waterloo.edu> batman@watsci.UUCP (Marcell Stoer) writes:
>If you want to issue 386 instructions, you will need a compiler that
>generates 32 bit code.  Microsoft has no such compiler.  There are companies
...
>Phar Lap has a good DOS-Extender.  These 386 compilers generally cost around
>$650-900 (think twice) and the DOS-Extender is $495 (when I bought it 2 months
>ago).>

Great! for the price of the compiler and extender, you could just buy UNIX for 
the 386 (with all the trimmings), get a real 32-bit environment, with
compiler (and/or use GCC), and still have money left over...  These UNIXes
will even support DOSMERGE-style apps that let you run MSDOS programs.

Seems to me, if you're willing to spend that kind of money to develop software
that won't even run under MSDOS (without the extender), what are you doing
running MSDOS as your primary OS in the first place?  Get UNIX, and spawn
DOS for your word processing/games/spreadsheet etc. (until good ones are
written for UNIX)!

-Peter Henry (peter@nucleus.apple.com)