QuickC

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QuickC
Developer(s) Microsoft
Written in C
Operating system MS-DOS
Type IDE
License Proprietary

Microsoft QuickC was a commercial integrated development environment (IDE) product engineered by Microsoft for the C programming language, superseded by Visual C++ Standard Edition[1]. Its main competitor was Turbo C[2].

[edit] Version history

  • QuickC 1.0, released in October 1987[3][4]. It implements the ANSI C standard and is Microsoft C 5.0 compatible[5]. CodeView is also supported[6]. The release had known compatibility issues with WD HDD controllers[7].
  • QuickC 1.01
  • QuickC 2.0, released in January 1989[8][9]. New features included: incremental compiling and linking, improved compilation speed, built-in assembler and support for all memory models[10]. It was Microsoft C 5.1 compatible[11].
  • QuickC 2.01, released in June 1989[12]. Quick Assembler was included in this release[13]. It was Microsoft Source Profiler compatible[14].
  • QuickC 2.50, released in May 1990[15].
  • QuickC 2.51, released in 1990
  • QuickC for Windows 1.0, released in September 1991[16][17]. It was the first Windows based IDE for C[18] and was also available in a bundle with Microsoft C 6.0 and Windows SDK[19]. The IDE made use of some undocumented Windows API calls[20][21].

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Visual C++ adds Windows support". InfoWorld: p. 17. February, 22 1993. http://books.google.pl/books?id=vjsEAAAAMBAJ. 
  2. ^ "Quick C vs Turbo C advertisement". InfoWorld: p. 70. September, 7 1987. http://books.google.pl/books?id=sTsEAAAAMBAJ. 
  3. ^ "Microsoft Releases C Program Wares, Provides Rebates". InfoWorld: p. 29. November, 9 1987. http://books.google.pl/books?id=Sj0EAAAAMBAJ. 
  4. ^ "Quick C advertisement". InfoWorld: p. 28. December, 7 1987. http://books.google.pl/books?id=Az8EAAAAMBAJ. 
  5. ^ "Microsoft Quick C Battles for a Better C Benefit Novice and Professional alike". InfoWorld: p. 67. May, 23 1988. http://books.google.pl/books?id=4T4EAAAAMBAJ. 
  6. ^ "User Group Greets Microsoft's New C Products With Enthusiasm". InfoWorld: p. 73. June, 8 1987. http://books.google.pl/books?id=0TAEAAAAMBAJ. 
  7. ^ "Microsoft Scrambles to Patch Quick C Bugs". InfoWorld: p. 3. December, 7 1987. http://books.google.pl/books?id=Az8EAAAAMBAJ. 
  8. ^ "Early Users Pleased With Microsoft Quick C Update". InfoWorld: p. 15. January, 30 1989. http://books.google.pl/books?id=MzoEAAAAMBAJ. 
  9. ^ "Quick C 2.0 advertisement". InfoWorld: p. 23. February, 6 1989. http://books.google.pl/books?id=OzoEAAAAMBAJ. 
  10. ^ "Microsoft Offers Quick C Upgrade". InfoWorld: p. 15. January, 16 1989. http://books.google.pl/books?id=rzsEAAAAMBAJ. 
  11. ^ "Six C Compilers". InfoWorld: p. 47. May, 22 1989. http://books.google.pl/books?id=mDAEAAAAMBAJ. 
  12. ^ "Quick Assembler bundled with Microsoft's Quick C". InfoWorld: p. 24. June, 12 1989. http://books.google.pl/books?id=jzAEAAAAMBAJ. 
  13. ^ "Microsoft Debuts Quick Assembler". InfoWorld: p. 3. June, 5 1989. http://books.google.pl/books?id=kzAEAAAAMBAJ. 
  14. ^ "Microsoft's Source Profiler Works With Languages Conforming to Open Tools". InfoWorld: p. 22. June, 10 1991. http://books.google.pl/books?id=RlAEAAAAMBAJ. 
  15. ^ "Microsoft Unveils C, Quick C Updates and Add-On Tools". InfoWorld: p. 13. April, 16 1990. http://books.google.pl/books?id=JjsEAAAAMBAJ. 
  16. ^ "Microsoft Readies Quick C for Windows for July Introduction". InfoWorld: p. 113. May, 13 1991. http://books.google.pl/books?id=WVAEAAAAMBAJ. 
  17. ^ "QuickC for Windows creates applications without using SDK". InfoWorld: p. 13. September, 2 1991. http://books.google.pl/books?id=gj0EAAAAMBAJ. 
  18. ^ "QuickC is a one-stop development tool". InfoWorld: p. 113. November, 18 1991. http://books.google.pl/books?id=Bj4EAAAAMBAJ. 
  19. ^ "C languages: oceans apart". InfoWorld: p. 55. February, 3 1992. http://books.google.pl/books?id=8T0EAAAAMBAJ. 
  20. ^ "Author disputes calls released by Microsoft". InfoWorld: p. 3. September, 14 1992. http://books.google.pl/books?id=f1EEAAAAMBAJ. 
  21. ^ "Undocumented Windows calls". InfoWorld: p. 98. November, 16 1992. http://books.google.pl/books?id=N1EEAAAAMBAJ. 


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