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From: fayne@tellab5.TELLABS.COM (Jeffrey Fayne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,alt.msdos.programmer
Subject: NuMega's Soft ICE questions
Keywords: Softice, NuMega
Message-ID: <2078@tellab5.TELLABS.COM>
Date: 7 Feb 90 14:12:48 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Organization: Tellabs, Inc. Lisle, IL
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I seriously considering purchasing NuMega's 386 debugger, however
I have a few questions for anyone who has used this program:

	1) Is it as powerful as the ads make it out to be ?
	   I'm particularly interested in it's 'back trace'
	   capability (will it allow you to step backwards
           thru your code once a breakpoint is hit or will
	   it just show you how you got to the breakpoint?).

	2) I understand the program is codeview compatable, 
	   therefore it should be TurboDebugger compatible
	   as well. True or false ?

	3) Talking to a sales type, he claims that there is
	   a beta version available that supports Plink86
	   symbol tables (however I believe he stated that just
	   the root is supported or is the beta version for the
	   overlays?) Is anyone using this beta version and if so
	   problems?  As an alternative, I understand that SoftIce
	   is compatable with .RTLINK/PLUS, any recommendations as
	   far as switching linkers?  I'm very happy with PLINK, but
	   if I find SoftIce 'invaluable', I may switch.


	4) Ideally, I would eventually like to run SoftIce under
	   VM/386 (multitasker), is this possible? If not why not
	   and will it run under any other multitasker?


Any observations would be greatly appreciated.


				Jeff

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