Thread: Visual C++ 1.52 Executable

Originally Posted by jimblumberg

If I remember correctly every "Visual" IDE required Windows, the earlier versions were pre-Windows95 but still required a Windows operating system. The compiler and linker could be invoked from the DOS prompt but the IDE required Windows.

Programmers Workbench (PWB.EXE) is a DOS (text) based IDE. - In addition to MASM 6.11, I think Programmer's Workbench was included in Visual C / C++ 7.0. (Visual C / C++ 1.52 has compiler version 8.00 (or 8.00c)).

For Windows 3.1x, Watcom C / C++ 10.0 was also popular because it supported winmem32 (32 bit apps on Windows 3.1x) as a memory model, without requiring win32s to be installed.