Re: FPW on a 3.0GHz P4 - will it work?

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From: Anders Altberg (x_pragma_at_telia.com)
Date: 12/17/04 

Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 14:14:11 +0100

"Cy Welch" <cywelch@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:p4vwd.43535$6q2.40008@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com...

>Changing the compiler would be almost on the verge of
>rewriting it from scratch. Oh yeah, they did that. It's called VFP.

MS recompiled FoxPre for Windows in their own C compiler before releasing
it. It had been written in Watcom C.

-Anders

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