Re: Codeview with os/2 2.0 GA

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From: Michael D Kretzer
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 02:58

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From article <1992Apr16.180309.8404@atl.scscom.com>, by chris@atl.scscom.com (Chris Boaro):
> In <1992Apr14.230051.9923@uwm.edu> tanith@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Michael D Kretzer) writes:
> 
>>Has anyone tried Microsoft C 7.0?  (I still haven't received any upgrade
>>information from C 6.0AX--does anyone know who I should contact?)  Is it
>>a 32-bit compiler?  I know that they say it won't support OS/2 2.0, but
>>is OS/2 1.x supported?  Can you compile 32-bit programs if you use the
>>IBM headers/libraries supplied in their toolkit?  How well does C 7.0
>>run under OS/2?
> 
> No, no, and no some more. C 7.0 won't run under OS/2, it won't compile
> 16 bit OS/2 programs, and it won't compile 32 bit OS/2 programs. Great
> support, huh?

I find this interesting, since MASM 6.0 (the latest version of their
Assembler), supports OS/2 2.0 quite well, and even mentions OS/2 2.x
programming techniques directly in the manual...*sigh*

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