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>Will there be a IPAS Developer's Kit for "real compilers" that have DOS
>extenders etc.? (like Symnatec etc)
Note the quote(s)… ^
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—Ehm ? But IPAS Development Kit is for REAL COMPILERS. As far as I know, IPAS
SDK is for Watcom C (version 9+) and
—MetaWare C (1.7x and 3.x). Both of them definitely ARE REAL COMPILERS (or
better to say compilers for REAL
—PROGRAMMERS). Not like these toys called Borland, Microsoft and Symantec
<g>. If you want to develop IPASes, buy the
—MetaWare C. You will need to buy Phar Lap DOS Extender too.
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ups, there's that bad word again … 😉 || || || ||
BTW, REAL PROGRAMMERS program in assembler… 😉
—BTW, the MetaWare is a very funny thing. The most cryptic compiler I ever
seen. This is the compiler for real mens.
Real men don't eat quiche, remember? 😉
—Bye PavelK
—P.S. I was not serious about Symantec. I have this compiler too. Very long
(approx. 90 MB on my HD), very nice (all those —icons, windows, colors etc.)
and very good for click/drag/drop programming. I'm sure that in Symantec
version 15 (4.7 GB —on HD) or Borland ver. 23.02 (3.2 GB on HD) the only
thing necessary for programming will be the strong fingers on the —mouse, not
the brain. <G><G><G>
right… (Looks like you haven't figured out the DOS part of the
compiler, scratch the windows trash and the 90 megs will shrink to
nothing)
All BS aside, the problem isn't with the C-compiler, but with the
lousy implementation of a licensed DOS extender, hmmm, might that be
Phar Lap? The thing is even too stupid to quit swapping to disk when
RAM IS available again, quite an achievement. <g> The target of my
exclamation wasn't really the compiler, but the tool. That might not
have come out as it should have in the original post, but then, the
post was talking about it, so I figured that it was obvious.
The Watcom is actually an excellent compiler; I only rememberthe
MetaWare C from my good old 68000 days, and it was an ok compiler
then. Borland IMO sucks royal and I agree with you. (But then I'm
only into C ( Unix based) since 1977, so I might be a little too
green for a high level discussion like this and leave it to the
experts …)