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Borland C++ for OS/2

Name	Borland C++ for OS/2
Version	2.0 (1995)
Vendor	Borland International
Author
Licence	Commercial
WWW	Archived Site

Borland C++ for OS/2 was an integrated development environment for 32-bit OS/2 systems. It includes the Borland Object Windows Library (OWL), that is compatible with the Windows-based version found in Borland C++.

Features

BCC - Borland C++ Compiler
Resource Workshop for OS/2
TASM - Turbo Assembler
TDOS2 - Turbo Debugger
TD - Turbo Debugger GX

Tools and Utilities

MAKE
TLINK - Linker
TLIB - Library Manager
IMPLIB, IMPDEF - Import library tools
BRCC - Borland resource compiler

Versions

1.0 (Mar 1993), announced 1993-02-25
1.5 (Mar 1994)
2.0 (Jan 1995)

Borland C++ 2.0 for OS/2 with SMART (Jun 1995)

This version is as far as the compiler goes roughly equivalent to version 4 for Windows and does indeed sometimes announce itself as V.4 for OS/2 rather than V.2.

Product Documentation

Version 1.5 (1994)

Borland Resource Workshop User's Guide - [1]
Borland Turbo Debugger GX User's Guide
Borland C++ User's Guide [2]
Borland C++ Tools and Utilities Guide [3]
Borland C++ Programmer's Guide [4]
Borland C++ Library Reference [5]

Version 2.0 (1994)

Borland Resource Workshop User's Guide
Borland Turbo Assembler for OS/2 User's Guide
Borland Turbo Assembler for OS/2 Quick Reference Guide
Borland Turbo Debugger for OS/2 User's Guide
Borland ObjectWindows for OS/2 Tutorial
Borland ObjectWindows for OS/2 Programmer's Guide
Borland ObjectWindows for OS/2 Reference Guide

Articles

Michael Hyman: Borland C++ for OS/2 Means Business
Eric Slaats: Borland C++ v2.0 for OS/2 (OS/2 e-Zine)
Gordon Zeglinski: C++ Compiler Review - Part 2 (Nov 1995)
Frank Ambacher: How to setup old Borland C for use with eComStation Toolkit

Publications

Michael Kelly: Multithreading with OS/2 and Borland C++ - C/C++ Users Journal (Aug 1994)

Links

A review of Borland C++ v.1 by PC Magazine - 1994
Ron Lamb:
- Borland C++ 2.0 for OS/2 (Nov 1995)
- Borland C++ 2.0 for OS/2 - Part II (Dec 1995)

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 '''Borland C++ for OS/2''' was an integrated development environment for 32-bit OS/2 systems. It includes the Borland [[Object Windows Library]] (OWL), that is compatible with the Windows-based version found in [[Borland C++]].
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 * BCC - Borland C++ Compiler
-* Resource Workshop
+* Resource Workshop for OS/2
 * TASM - [[Turbo Assembler]]
 * TDOS2 - [[Turbo Debugger]]
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 ==Versions==
 [[Image:Borlandc2.png|thumb|Borland C++ 2.0 for OS/2 GUI]]
-*Feb 1993: Borland C++ for OS/2 Version 1.0
+*1.0 (Mar 1993), announced 1993-02-25
-*Mar 1994: Borland C++ for OS/2 Version 1.5
+*1.5 (Mar 1994)
-*Jan 1995: Borland C++ for OS/2 Version 2.0
+*2.0 (Jan 1995)
-*Jun 1995: Borland C++ 2.0 for OS/2 with [[SMART]]
+* Borland C++ 2.0 for OS/2 with [[SMART]] (Jun 1995)
 :This version is as far as the compiler goes roughly equivalent to version 4 for Windows and does indeed sometimes announce itself as V.4 for OS/2 rather than V.2.