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From: perand@nada.kth.se (Per Andersson)
Newsgroups: gnu.g++
Subject: Re: g++ for 80x86 MS-DOS?
Message-ID: <2918@draken.nada.kth.se>
Date: 11 Feb 90 16:13:17 GMT
References: <14860@cs.yale.edu>
Reply-To: perand@nada.kth.se (Per Andersson)
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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In article <14860@cs.yale.edu> powsner.medinf@yccatsmtp.ycc.yale.edu (Seth M Powsner) writes:
>Is g++ available for PC compatibles running plain MS-DOS? Is this a 
>reasonable question?

Yawn. Here we go again : GCC ( which implicitly includes G++ ) is made for a
computer with 32-bit integers and at least 1 meg of contigous memory. Since
a PC has 16 bit integers and it can only adress 1 meg with almost half taken
by display card and os this will never happen. You want to use c++ on a pc -
well there is something called Zortech C++. Otherwise you might consider an
Atari ST, it can be persuaded to run G++, it runs GCC today.

Per
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