oneel@heawk1.rosserv.gsfc.nasa.gov ( Bruce Oneel ) (04/04/91)
Some more BC++ impresssions after a few weeks. Since I've gotten BC++ I've finally broken down and purchased a 12mhz 2.5meg 286. Boy is that fast relative to what I had before (8mhz 8086, 640k). Yes, not the fastest but a big step up. I had previously talked about different example programs which didn't compile/didn't run/didn't run quite right in real mode on the previous machine. All of the example programs using bcx or bccx compile and run perfectly on the new machine (just like borland says, no real mode!). The WRT is now usable (it swapped itself to death on the old machine) and TDW is quite nice. All in all a good package. My compliments to Borland on making protected mode programs which work perfectly on a random clone motherboard with random clone parts stuck in. In the spirit of running into the fire rather then slowing stepping in, I've started to develop an application (toy really) using the class libraries in the Borland Language Express and C++. Two very new things at once (windows and c++). I purchased Petzold's Windows programming, the SDK Programmers reference manual, and the SDK Programming windows (or something like that) at the local discount book store for about $70 and surrounded by those three, the C++ ARM, and the BLX mag I'm trying to program.... I'm also pleased because I'm getting more compile/link/debug cycles running BC++ off of the above machine than I got in any other environment other than the sparcserver at work with OpenWin. It seems even quicker than the origional TC even when doing C++ code. The protected mode compilers with 2.5 meg seem to really solve the slow compile/link cycle I was getting on the 640k machine (45 minutes to compile one of the C++ windows example programs in todo, 20 minutes to link just about anything having to do with windows). bruce -- | Bruce O'Neel | internet : oneel@heasfs.gsfc.nasa.gov| | Code 664/STX | span : lheavx::oneel | | NASA/GSFC |compuserve: 72737,1315 | | Greenbelt MD 20771 | AT&Tnet : (301)-286-1119 |