borland c++ 2.0 runs with 8088 \ VOGONS

borland c++ 2.0 runs with 8088

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First post, by noshutdown

Posted on 2020-02-25, 09:01

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i downloaded the manual and it says so, but the more popular v3.1 requires at least a 286 and 2mb of ram.
has anyone tried this?

Reply 1 of 2, by Errius

Posted on 2020-02-25, 11:53

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Since it was mostly used to write software for the original PC it would be surprising if it didn't run on it.

It will however be slow. Compiling big programs will be an ordeal.

Is this too much voodoo?

Reply 2 of 2, by Benedikt

Posted on 2020-02-25, 14:33

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Even Turbo Pascal 7 from 1992 runs on an 8088. While the IDE is slow, the compiler is still reasonably fast.
Borland's C and C++ compilers cannot compete with Turbo Pascal's compilation speed, but produce superior code, because Turbo Pascal does not really optimize anything.

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