On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 4:43 AM, Alan Bourke <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jul 8, 2013, at 05:28 PM, Kevin Cully wrote: > > No clue, but I don't believe that it was Foxpro for DOS. > > > > Nope that was C of some description. Watcom C, reputed to be one of the best commercial compilers ever. With the Phar Lap DOS Extender, which should bring back some memories (*shudder*). There were rumors that porting VFP from Watcom to Microsoft C revealed some real performance issues in the Microsoft C runtime packages and compiler optimizations, addressed partially in MS C and in rewriting some portions of Fox in assembler. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/CACW6n4tD4X2EEt5OASk395DgL=ix=k90v6bm3ua7059roc5...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
