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Re: Doubts about pointers

Subject: Re: Doubts about pointers
From: Richard Heathfield
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 15:27:20 +0000
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c

santosh said:

<snip>

> And another major problem [of Turbo C] is that you are pretty
> much forced to use Windows.

Not at all! You can use MS-DOS instead!  :-)  (And I do, sometimes.)

But yes, that's a pretty serious drawback.

> I agree that it's a marvellous piece of programming, but then so were
> many DOS/CP-M programs of that era.

Rather like the pyramids. Have we *really* lost the techniques? Or are we 
just too lazy to use them?

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