Re: Borland C++ 4.0 and OS/2 Device Drivers

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From: Will Rose
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 22:13

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Andrew Furlong (andrew.furlong@prior.ca) wrote:
: The company I work for needs to write a set of device drivers for certain cards
: installed on 486 PCs under OS/2 2.1.

: We have it on good authority (a book on the subject) that we need to generate
: these as 16-bit code.  The author recommends we use either Microsoft C 6.0 or
: Borland C 3.5 or 4.0.  He used Microsoft 6.0 for his examples.

: We have been unable to locate and purchase a copy of MSC 6.0.  According to
: Microsoft they don't even make it anymore.

IBM now seems to be using Watcom for its 16-bit code, such as device drivers.
There was a recent article in DevCon News about this.

Will
cwr@crash.cts.com

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