ted@imsvax.UUCP (02/11/87)
At least two people have enquired concerning this problem recently and, before everyone switches to Turbo-C, I thought I'd mention one other way of getting around the problem. Jim Kokkonen and his company, called Turbo Power, market a product called Turbo-Extender, which normally goes for about $60. I have a copy which I haven't gotten around to trying to use just yet, but other kinds of complex Turbo things from the same group of people have all worked flawlessly and I regard them as heavyweight programm- ers; I have no doubt Turbo-Extender will work. Turbo-Extender allows for creating .EXE files up to 640K in size from modules compiled with Turbo Pascall (as chain files), and allows for five different kinds of large and umongous arrays: arrays in RAM (up to 640K), arrays using the Lotus- Intel-Microsoft extended memory system, two kinds of virtual arrays residing mostly on disk, and sparse arrays such as are used by SuperCalc4 and the newer spreadsheets (and which Lotus got dragged into using BY SuperCalc when the world discovered that paying $300 for SuperCalc might be a better idea than paying Lotus $2500 for enough LIM memory to let them cook their breakfasts on their microcomputer in the morning). The combination of Turbo, Turbo Extender, things such as Btrieve, and the myriad assortment of Turbo extensions out there on the BBS's, I believe, amount to the most powerful programming system ever devised on any computer. Ted Holden, IMS