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In article <1992Oct28.141937.18066@gdstech.grumman.com> david@gdstech.UUCP (David Nettles) writes:
>Is there a version of Turbo C++ (or Borland C++) that will work
>something other than a 80386 (like 8086 or 80286?)?
Turbo C++ works fine on a 286, as long as you have a megabyte of
extended memory availble. On my system, I had to change the config.sys
a little bit to get it to run. Just dump all your tsrs.


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msjle@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Joi L. Ellis) writes:

>david@gdstech.grumman.com (David Nettles) writes:

>>Is there a version of Turbo C++ (or Borland C++) that will work
>>something other than a 80386 (like 8086 or 80286?)?
>>-- 
>My brand new copy of Turbo C++ 3.0 is running just fine on my old clunky
>Compaq 286 Deskpro.  (I did have to add more memory, though.)
>It will *not* run on a 8088/8086, it must be 286 or better because it
>requires at least 1 meg of XMS (EXTENDED) memory.  EMS is NOT what it
>wants, although it will use it later if it needs it.

My advice is to get Turbo C++ 2nd edition used over the net.  Hell, I'll sell
you my old copy.  It works fine on 8086 or 08286 machines with no need for
extra memory.  I bought Borland C++ 3.0 (and got the 3.1 upgrade), so there
is no license problems if you choose to purchase my copy.  Let me know
if you're interested via email.  

BTW, I didn't know that Turbo C++ 3.0 requires XMS!  Is that for the windows
extras?

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>>   David E. Nettles
>>   Internet: david@gdstech.grumman.com
>>   Grumman Data Systems
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>Joi Ellis                      msjle@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu
>Student Residential Programs   Western Illinois University
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tannerr@CS.ORST.EDU (Ryan Tanner) writes:

>My advice is to get Turbo C++ 2nd edition used over the net.  Hell, I'll sell
>you my old copy.  It works fine on 8086 or 08286 machines with no need for
>extra memory.  I bought Borland C++ 3.0 (and got the 3.1 upgrade), so there
>is no license problems if you choose to purchase my copy.  Let me know
>if you're interested via email.  

>BTW, I didn't know that Turbo C++ 3.0 requires XMS!  Is that for the windows
>extras?

No, it's because most of the .EXEs in the TC 3.0 for DOS actually run in
PROTECTED MODE!  Borland Tech Support told me this is so the compiler
will be able to deal with much larger programs before choking.  

I'm porting a large Unix C program with it, and the current module I'm
working on is nearly 11,000 lines of read-code (in the TC compile status
window) and the sucker still has 400K free, after starting with 600K or
so.  The command line compiler has even more left, starting with over a
meg free.

It will also swap out to EMS and to disk, as needed.

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Joi Ellis                      msjle@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu
Student Residential Programs   Western Illinois University