Re: Microsoft C 6.0 manuals

2020-10-07 Thread Tomas By via cctalk
So I was thinking of the Handheld systems stuff here. /Tomas On Wed, 07 Oct 2020 16:23:49 +0200, Tomas By via cctalk wrote: > > On Wed, 07 Oct 2020 16:18:15 +0200, wrote: > > Would then not be on MSDN cds from around that time? > > > I don't think so. I did spend some effort to locate on of

Re: Microsoft C 6.0 manuals

2020-10-07 Thread Tomas By via cctalk
On Wed, 07 Oct 2020 18:55:40 +0200, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > https://www.pcjs.org/documents/books/mspl13/c/ For the record, the CD is available here: https://archive.org/details/MicrosoftProgramersLibraryV1.3 In case you don't trust web sites to still be there after you look away for a sec

Re: Microsoft C 6.0 manuals

2020-10-07 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 10/7/20 9:56 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: On 10/7/20 6:56 AM, Tomas By via cctalk wrote: Hi again, Am also looking for the manuals for Microsoft C 6.0, preferably in a digital format. /Tomas Looks like 6.0 ca. 1990 as their first ANSI C compiler? MSC 6.0 review https://www.drdobbs.

Re: Microsoft C 6.0 manuals

2020-10-07 Thread Tomas By via cctalk
On Wed, 07 Oct 2020 18:55:40 +0200, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > https://www.pcjs.org/documents/books/mspl13/c/ Thank you. /Tomas

Re: Microsoft C 6.0 manuals

2020-10-07 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 10/7/20 9:56 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: On 10/7/20 6:56 AM, Tomas By via cctalk wrote: Hi again, Am also looking for the manuals for Microsoft C 6.0, preferably in a digital format. /Tomas Looks like 6.0 ca. 1990 as their first ANSI C compiler? Did anyone ever turn up the driver D

Re: Microsoft C 6.0 manuals

2020-10-07 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 10/7/20 6:56 AM, Tomas By via cctalk wrote: Hi again, Am also looking for the manuals for Microsoft C 6.0, preferably in a digital format. /Tomas Looks like 6.0 ca. 1990 as their first ANSI C compiler?

Re: Microsoft C 6.0 manuals

2020-10-07 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 10/7/20 6:56 AM, Tomas By via cctalk wrote: Hi again, Am also looking for the manuals for Microsoft C 6.0, preferably in a digital format. /Tomas https://www.pcjs.org/documents/books/mspl13/c/

Re: Microsoft C 6.0 manuals

2020-10-07 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
Visual Studio is a different product than "Microsoft Optimizing C Compiler". There MIGHT have been Quick C or Visual C included with the C compiler Earlier versions were rebranded Lattice. The manuals were massive. We got a great deal ($75?? instead of several hundred$), and ordered half a

Re: Microsoft C 6.0 manuals

2020-10-07 Thread Frank McConnell via cctalk
On Oct 7, 2020, at 8:29, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > > On 10/7/20 7:23 AM, Tomas By via cctalk wrote: >> On Wed, 07 Oct 2020 16:18:15 +0200, wrote: >>> Would then not be on MSDN cds from around that time? >> >> >> I don't think so. I did spend some effort to locate on of those that I >> had

Re: Microsoft C 6.0 manuals

2020-10-07 Thread Tomas By via cctalk
Hi, Well, I may not need all of it. Am just looking for the basic compiler manuals, it should be three-four not too thick volumes. I have one of them in hardcopy but cannot find it. I wish you could instantly & costlessly shift your collection over to archive.org /Tomas On Wed, 07 Oct 2020 17

Re: Microsoft C 6.0 manuals

2020-10-07 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
Looking at my stash of 5.25" floppies, I have C 4.0, 5.0 and 6. I think the 32-bit VC++ came in with 7.0. which would account for the explosion in paper (Class libraries, etc.). 6.0 looks to be pretty straightforward and includes libraries and Workbench for OS/2 as well. Unless I've misplaced so

Re: Microsoft C 6.0 manuals

2020-10-07 Thread geneb via cctalk
On Wed, 7 Oct 2020, Bjoren Davis via cctalk wrote: I have a retail boxed set "Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 Professional Edition Upgrade" (P/N 659-00145). Visual Studio 6 is vastly different than Microsoft C v6.0. MSC is pretty much DOS only, with maybe some early windows or OS/2 stuff in it

Re: Microsoft C 6.0 manuals

2020-10-07 Thread Tomas By via cctalk
Hi, I don't think this is the same product? The one I mean is from 1990, I believe. /Tomas On Wed, 07 Oct 2020 17:42:56 +0200, Bjoren Davis via cctalk wrote: > I have a retail boxed set "Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 Professional > Edition Upgrade" (P/N 659-00145). > > It's stuffed with CDs, s

Re: Microsoft C 6.0 manuals

2020-10-07 Thread Bill Degnan via cctalk
On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 11:29 AM Chuck Guzis via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On 10/7/20 7:23 AM, Tomas By via cctalk wrote: > > On Wed, 07 Oct 2020 16:18:15 +0200, wrote: > >> Would then not be on MSDN cds from around that time? > > > > > > I don't think so. I did spend some effort to

Re: Microsoft C 6.0 manuals

2020-10-07 Thread Richard Cini via cctalk
Yes, for VS6, all of the docs were on two or three CDs that were installed separately. I think it was called the "MSDN Library". On 10/7/20, 11:43 AM, "cctalk on behalf of Bjoren Davis via cctalk" wrote: I have a retail boxed set "Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 Professional Edition Upg

Re: Microsoft C 6.0 manuals

2020-10-07 Thread Bjoren Davis via cctalk
I have a retail boxed set "Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 Professional Edition Upgrade" (P/N 659-00145). It's stuffed with CDs, some of which I seem to remember were sent to me after I mailed in some coupons. There's not much paper documentation -- a "Microsoft Visual Studio Resource Guide", "G

Re: Microsoft C 6.0 manuals

2020-10-07 Thread Richard Cini via cctalk
I have PDFs of C 4.0 and C 5.0, both of which were included in a load of "Windows 1" stuff I had which included the Platform SDK manuals. If you want them, contact me off-list. Rich On 10/7/20, 11:29 AM, "cctalk on behalf of Chuck Guzis via cctalk" wrote: On 10/7/20 7:23 AM, Tomas By v

Re: Microsoft C 6.0 manuals

2020-10-07 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 10/7/20 7:23 AM, Tomas By via cctalk wrote: > On Wed, 07 Oct 2020 16:18:15 +0200, wrote: >> Would then not be on MSDN cds from around that time? > > > I don't think so. I did spend some effort to locate on of those that I > had some reference to, but it turned out to be nothing. (And I have >

Re: Microsoft C 6.0 manuals

2020-10-07 Thread Tomas By via cctalk
On Wed, 07 Oct 2020 16:18:15 +0200, wrote: > Would then not be on MSDN cds from around that time? I don't think so. I did spend some effort to locate on of those that I had some reference to, but it turned out to be nothing. (And I have checked at least ten MSDN CDs for this material.) There ar

RE: Microsoft C 6.0 manuals

2020-10-07 Thread Dave Wade G4UGM via cctalk
Would then not be on MSDN cds from around that time? Dave > -Original Message- > From: cctalk On Behalf Of Tomas By via > cctalk > Sent: 07 October 2020 14:56 > To: cctalk@classiccmp.org > Subject: Microsoft C 6.0 manuals > > Hi again, > > Am also looking

Microsoft C 6.0 manuals

2020-10-07 Thread Tomas By via cctalk
Hi again, Am also looking for the manuals for Microsoft C 6.0, preferably in a digital format. /Tomas