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Subject: Re: Recommended version of C++?

Author: Mark Taylor

Date: 03:47:19 02/04/00

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On February 04, 2000 at 03:06:12, Christophe Theron wrote:

>While I would certainly 100% support your views about Microsoft, I have to say
>that the Visual Studio 6.0 runs just fine under my Windows 98 (Second Edition).
>Maybe you should reinstall it.


It was a fresh installation!


>The Service Pack 3 is 120Mb in size, so good luck if you want to download it
>from the MS site.


It would take about a week to download over my 28k modem & my ISP has max
connection time or 2hrs!


>However the version I have is not optimized for Pentium (I downloaded it in >1997 and never updated since that).


The current version is 2.02 and I understand that it has many improvements/fixes
& should be worth getting.


> Do you know if there is a new version available,
>with Pentium optimizations?


PGCC is a special version of GNU C optimised for the Pentium (under Linux). Some
people have got PGCC to work with DJGPP on the PC -
http://www.goof.com/pcg/djgpp/index.html


Mark.



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