Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 18:02:17 +0800 (GMT)
From: Orlando Andico <orly AT gibson DOT eee DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph>
To: Tudor <tudor AT cam DOT org>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: DJGPP vs Borland C++
In-Reply-To: <32E9ABEC.714F@cam.org>
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On Fri, 24 Jan 1997, Tudor wrote:

> Well, I can't say I had serious problems with Borland stuff ,only that
> they are 16 bit ,real mode, slow buggy code...etc etc.
> Actually I started C in turboC++.
> Compared to them DJGPP is a lot better.

i started coding in turbo c 2.0, and every now and then, the ide would
just quit, requiring a hard reboot. or, things would be flaky unless i
used huge memory model (_slow_) even though i didn't do any farmallocs or
whatever.. i think it also had a lot of libc (or what they call c0h.lib ;)
bugs..

anyway dos is probably the only OS that can puke up in the middle of your
work of a daily basis (trashing all of it) and you have to shutdown and
reboot, and YOU ACTUALLY ACCEPT THIS. you can guess my initial reaction
the first time i saw the 45-day uptime of a SunOS box... ;>

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