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echo: os2prog
to: David Noon
from: Coridon Henshaw
date: 1998-12-28 13:27:16
subject: VisualAge C++ for OS/2

On Saturday December 26 1998 at 16:49, David Noon wrote to George White:

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

I dunno; maybe they wrote it in interpretive C++ running on a JAVA-based interpreter?

Has IBM added any 'killer' features to explain this massive bloat?

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