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From: throoph@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU (Henry Throop)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Manx ProDOS Aztec C
Message-ID: <12358@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>
Date: 2 Sep 89 17:59:44 GMT
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Reply-To: throoph@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU.UUCP (Henry Throop)
Organization: Oregon State University - CS - Corvallis Oregon
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In article <890829035130.504866@UNCAMULT.BITNET> CYLau@UNCAMULT.BITNET (The Ultron) writes:
>
>Manx Aztec C (ProDOS)-> No, it's not worth $299...  IMHO, it is not even
>worth half of that...  Although Manx did a good job on the operating
>environment (The shell is an excellent copy of the Unix Bourne shell,
>and things like Make, diff, grep are good too), the main part of the
>package-> The C compiler itself is too slow. [...]
>chris 

If all you're looking for is the shell and vi-type editor, they include
that in their $19 Apprentice C package.  Technically it's an interpreter,
meaning that execution speed isn't real fast, but compilation is pretty
quick (15 seconds or so for 'Hello World').  For a C idiot like me who's
just trying to play around with the language a bit, it's fine.

Henry