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JH> Any users of Power BASIC out there?

I had version 2.? and gave it up when I found out how much
more support and info was available for QB products.

JH> How does it compare to, say, Turbo Pascal?  How big are the generated
JH> EXE files (i.e. is there lots of overhead for the runtime library,
JH> etc.)?

No speakee Pascal, but I noticed PB to make a little tighter
and faster code for what I was doing.  Also with just a few
minutes per program, I was taking PB code, loading it into QB
and having it up and running.

JH> And for a more technical question:  Does PB always generate machine
JH> code when you run a program (from within the environment) or does it
JH> do some sort of interpretation like QB?

QB uses something called threaded p-code (whatever that is?).
I'm not sure about PB.

JH> Any comments would be appreciated.  PB 3.0 looks very nice indeed,
JH> especially the in-line assembler.

Drat!  Just when I've figured out how to do an interrupt call
in QB!

The way it looks like Microsoft is dumping DOS programmers, it
might be a good move to go with PB.  Around here, users are
predicting that DOS is dead meat and that Microsoft,
especially, is pushing it off the cliff.

I'm an old fashioned DOS programmer who HATES windows, so I
guess if we are going to windows only, I'll be dragged there
screaming and kicking my feet!

Does PB 3.0 do Windows?  <grin>
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