TurboC (was: 8" floppy project

On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Vassilis Prevelakis wrote: It also has a crude API (extended from the CP/M API). Are you saying that it is not an OS because you don't like the API? Or because the multitasking functions in the API are undocumented and crude? ... and it has DEBUG (the most powerful and important program to ever run on MS-DOS) I run the TurboC (2.0x) IDE on Win2K and on WinXP. I teach C Programming at College Of Alameda, where the lab is entirely Win2K, and at Vista College, where the lab is entirely XP. I make the students do one program using a command line compiler. I demo with, and offer them the use of, DeSmet/PCC, but they may substitute another command line compiler of their choice. The first assignment (getting the tools to work) is to write a program to put their name on the screen. That is significantly better as a first assignment than "Hello, world", since the personalization gives them more personal satisfaction on completion, and forces every one of them to do their own compile, instead of turning in a copy of somebody else's. Then I make them do one program using a crude IDE. I demo with, and offer them the use of TurboC V2.0, but they may substitute another crude IDE of their choice. THEN, and only then, I let them use any compiler that they want for the remainder of the course. Many immediately attempt to use Visual C. depends on what kind of "real work" you WANT to do. It works [sort of] as an application launcher. But most of all, IT WILL GET OUT OF THE WAY when you want to do "real work". -- Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com