Can BC 3.0 be made to run on a computer with 1M of RAM?

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From: oleg kibirev
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 04:29

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I am thinking about getting a better C compiler. I've seen BC 3.0
running on machine of my friend & it looks fine (no religious wars,
please...). However, the most important thing I understood from a
reply of bc30-info@Borland.COM is that it's not going to run on my PC.
I have a 286 with 1M of RAM & no place to put more memory. The
dinosaur  needs 1M of only extended mem. I can't believe I've seen a
64K C compiler for DOS! Apperently, Borland thinks that all of us will
run the thing in DOS-compatibility window of Cray IV.

Now the question. I've never written protected mode programs, but I
think that if BC 3.0 is using DPMI, it should be possible to give
it as much "extended memory" as it wants by swapping to the disk. Is
there a program to replace DPMILOAD that will do this?

						 Kibirev Oleg
						 kibirev@CSA.BU.EDU

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Subject: Can BC 3.0 be made to run on a computer with 1M of RAM?
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