Article View: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Article #2272Internal Microsoft stuff (was Re: Huge pointers in BC++)
From: Tim Anderson
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1991 16:47
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1991 16:47
23 lines
1755 bytes
1755 bytes
>Anyway, BCC+ seems to work like a charm--why can't Microsoft write compilers? >Do they actually use their own? Maybe that's why it takes them so long to >come out with new software... > >Aaron Wallace That's one of the funniest things that Micromoron (oops, Microsoft) does. After asking someone 'at Microsoft' some questions regarding painfully obvious utilities, platforms, etc, etc, he stated "Oh, we've had that stuff internally for years..." Now, about those hooks into the operating system that they don't tell anyone about. I wonder how many wonderous things they are going to put into dos5.0 for 'internal use only'. I just hope the FTC slaps them silly for pulling stunts like this. I'm not holding my breath, however. Lets just hope that they make the silly thing re-entrant. I'm not holding my breath, however. tima@agora.rain.com PS: As much as I dislike Micormoron, I really really like their mice, Word and EXCELL are pretty darn cool, and we are currently porting our application to Win3. I still don't like them. We will be using BCC+, if I can ever fit C600, BCC+, Brief and DOS on a 33meg partition...
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<1991Apr23.164726.3588@agora.rain.com>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!rochester!cornell!uw-beaver!zephyr.ens.tek.com!tektronix!reed!intelhf!agora!timaReferences:
<1991Apr19.172703.24638@leland.Stanford.EDU> <1991Apr19.221458.12071@ccad.uiowa.edu> <1991Apr22.162836.24655@leland.Stanford.EDU>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!rochester!cornell!uw-beaver!zephyr.ens.tek.com!tektronix!reed!intelhf!agora!tima From: tima@agora.rain.com (Tim Anderson) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer Subject: Internal Microsoft stuff (was Re: Huge pointers in BC++) Message-ID: <1991Apr23.164726.3588@agora.rain.com> Date: 23 Apr 91 16:47:26 GMT References: <1991Apr19.172703.24638@leland.Stanford.EDU> <1991Apr19.221458.12071@ccad.uiowa.edu> <1991Apr22.162836.24655@leland.Stanford.EDU> Organization: Open Communications Forum Lines: 23