Date:	Sat, 12 Feb 2000 17:00:49 +0600 (LKT)
From:	Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel <kalum AT newmail DOT net>
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Subject:	Re: DJGPP and 286?
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On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, JP Morris wrote:

> No.  But if you need to make a 286-protected mode program, try to get
> hold of Borland C 4.xx and Powerpack, if possible.
> The 16-bit support is superb (the 32-bit support converted me to DJGPP
> however).

I agree with this. I used BC4.5 with Powerpack to develop 16 bit protected
mode programs and IMHO it is a superb development environment with
excellent documentation. You may have heard of a beautiful game called
Jazz Jackrabbit, well it was written using borlands 16bit DPMI extender.

I didn't like the 32bit programming environment however which made me
switch to Watcom and then to DJGPP.

BTW if you use 16bit DPMI you will be able to use only 16MB of memory for 
your programs as vs the 4GB theoretically available for 32bit apps.

Regards,
Kalum


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