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In article <14JUL93.12564805.0008@tscc.macarthur.uws.EDU.AU> Michael Turk <ABMT@musica.macarthur.uws.EDU.AU> writes:
>WARNING
>=======
>
>If you are considering purchasing Visual C++ to learn or teach C++,
>then I suggest you reconsider.
>
>1    It needs in excess of 30 M hard disk to install.
>     *  So even if you have a 120M disk doublespaced you may not
>        have enough disk space.
>
>2    It needs MORE THAN 4M FREE memory to build from the workbench.
>     It will squeeze by with 6M but really should have 8M or more.
>     *  So you may have to purchase an additional 4M memory
>        An unexpected outlay of about $240 in Aust.
>
>3    A minimum of 15M dedicated swap file is recommended.
>     *  So, if you are doublespaced already and you want to increase
>        your swap file size ... you lose even more.

   It also wants to have FILES=50, which seems kinda excessive to me, 
   but I still think it's great.   Since I got it I find I use my
   Borland IDE are related tools less and less.   I agree it may not
   be great for beginners, but I think Microsoft has come a long way
   with this product and I recommend it for serious work (I have the
   "Professional" version - I can't speak for the other one.   Granted,
   it's a resource hog, but that's the way of the world in this indus-
   try - hardware is so cheap these days that it's not unreasonable
   to expect that a 486 with 200M HD and 8-16 MB of RAM is a basic
   system.   

---peter