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From: alanr@tekigm2.MEN.TEK.COM (Alan Rovner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Use UNIX for MSDOS development?
Message-ID: <6013@tekigm2.MEN.TEK.COM>
Date: 1 Sep 89 15:22:01 GMT
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Reply-To: alanr@tekigm2.MEN.TEK.COM (Alan Rovner)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Vancouver,  WA.
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Here at Tek, we develop PC code on our Gould Unix mainframe using the Oasys
Cross Development package.  It includes Microsoft C 5.1, MASM 5.1, the
linker and librarian.  They work fine, no problem.  The only funny thing is
you need to be real careful about path names/option switches in Unix.
All option switches are specified using - instead of / which Unix interprets
as path names.

What Oasys did is to obtain the actual source code from Microsoft and simply
recompile it under different platforms.  You even get all the normal and
standard Microsoft copyright messages.

One thing though, it ain't cheap.  I believe the whole thing ran $30,000
for three mainframes to run the stuff.  So unless you're contemplating 
serious PC development, you might look at something else.

Regards,
Al Rovner