MP> Huh?  I ran EMX on my 486/33 with 8 megs before I upgraded to 20. 

 SO> Well, of course it does work, but if you intend to use C++ rather
 SO> than C and if you write large pieces of code, I would not call 
 SO> that "run" but rather "creep". For C++
development I would not 
 SO> recommend less than a 486/100 (better a Pentium/133) and at least 
 SO> 20 MB of RAM.

 MP> Ok, it creeps :) But it will eventually get finished compiling. 
 MP> Just have to wait a few hours or days for larger projects.  

Oh, yes :-(

 MP> If you break the source up into small chunks and use a make 
 MP> utility, rebuilds for bug fixes or whatnot becomes tolerable 
 MP> since you're only compiling a very small portion of the program.

Anybody who calls himself a serious programmer should consider a
modular project design from the beginning, that's not in question.
But especially in the first half of a large project you will usually
do crucial changes to *.H files quite frequently and thus cause a
lot of dependancies to be updated. A slow compiler (or rather a
slow development system, which includes the processor) can be a
real pain in the neck in these situations.

Tschuess,
  Steffen 
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