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- From: dmurdoch@mast.queensu.ca (Duncan Murdoch)
- Subject: Re: Borland C++ 4.0 - Who knows What?
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 13:44:50 GMT
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- In article <4205.9211171028@thor.cf.ac.uk> wdrdjh@thor.cf.ac.uk (Dr D J Harvey 92) writes:
- >I've heard a rumour that Borland C++ 4.0 is due to ship at the end of this
- >year and will include a DOS extender. How well founded is this this
- >info? Also, does anyone knwo (or have any idea) what the compliance
- >modes (e.g. DPMI etc) of the extender will be and whether there are
- >likely to be any distribution royalties on programs that include it?
-
- Since Borland Pascal 7 has now shipped and includes a royalty-free DOS
- extender, it seems a pretty good bet. The extender works with DPMI, not
- VCPI, but provides a DPMI server that can run in a VCPI system (like QEMM
- and Desqview). It should also run on a bare system with no server, but I
- haven't tried it yet.
-
- The extender supports DLLs in the same format as Windows uses, so you can
- share the same code in Windows apps and DOS apps.
-
- It's only a 16 bit extender, so you're still stuck with 64K segments.
- That's the only major negative I've seen so far.
-
- Duncan Murdoch
- dmurdoch@mast.queensu.ca
-