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Re: PDS 7.1 and VB for DOS

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From: Fred Freeland
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 02:26
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In article <60275@mimsy.umd.edu> biow@cs.umd.edu (chris biow) writes:
>
>"virtually"? Could you elaborate on what features it does not 
>have?
>
>If it's just new reserved words, no problem. But if applications
>cannot be easily ported, that's a big problem...
>
Right off the top of my head, I cannot think of a single thing that was
in BC 7.1 that is not in VB/DOS with the exception of the User Interface
toolkit, which now becomes redundant since the the features
provided by that add-on are now incorporated into the language itself.


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From: fredf@microsoft.com (Fred Freeland)
Subject: Re: PDS 7.1 and VB for DOS
Message-ID: <1992Sep15.022655.1657@microsoft.com>
Date: 15 Sep 92 02:26:55 GMT
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