In a message dated 12-25-98, George White said to Jonathan De Boyne Pollard
about "VisualAge C++ for OS/2"

Hi George,

[transferred from the OS2 echo]
JDBP>Version *4*!  When did that come out ?

GW>Official release date was 18th December.

GW>btw, recommended RAM according to a follow up post was 128 Meg!!!!!

What??????????!!!!!!!!!!!!???????????

But C/C++ produces the leanest, meanest object code possib...

Well, I guess that's another urban myth gone west. The way things are
shaping up with IBM language tools, I am rapidly becoming a devotee of
Sibyl, the Object Pascal generator from SpeedSoft. It might be wall-to-wall
GUI, but it will run on a 16MB machine quite comfortably.

I don't see why I should quadruple my RAM for a compiler. The current VAC++
is already a memory hog with its WorkFrame/2 and Visual Builder. It soaks up
all the spare bytes of my current 32MB and pages quite a deal beyond that. I
cannot conceive of what IBM did to make the situation even worse.

Yes, Sibyl looks a winner from my point of view.

Regards

Dave

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