Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!psuvax1!psuvax1!schwartz From: schwartz@shire.cs.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt Subject: Re: Who uses IBM/4.3 (AOS)? Message-ID: Date: 8 Sep 89 20:16:03 GMT References: <2008@ibmpa.UUCP> <1989Sep8.030653.19509@larouch.uucp> Sender: news@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu Organization: Pennsylvania State University, computer science Lines: 39 In-reply-to: jparnas@larouch.uucp's message of 8 Sep 89 03:06:53 GMT Jacob Parnas, from IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center writes: | Charlie Slater, Eric Brunner, and Jeff Weinstein at IBM Palo Alto have | been very helpful in helping to fix the few problems that we have had. Based on my experience, what you say makes me suspect that Yorktown Heights gets, ummm, slightly better service than we do. Maybe that's not surprising. :-) I think very highly of the people from IBM Palo Alto that I've met. The problem is that we have to deal with USC/ACSC as the middleman. | ... the C compiler among other parts of the OS have been greatly | improved). Errr. The unwashed masses are holding their breath waiting for the gcc port. Let me be as blunt as I can: I won't use "hc" for anything that actually needs to work. This is not a flame, just a frightened observation. We'll see about the new release (2.1s) as soon as it is installed. My first test program will look like this: #ifdef __STDC__ /* Oh good, a 100% ANSI conforming compiler! */ #define FOO(x) #x static char foo[] = FOO(bar); /* should expand to ``static char foo[] = "bar";'' */ #endif All previous releases of hc get this wrong; they fail to compile it. | I highly recommend trying 4.3 AOS, if it is available to you. Agreed. Get real unix while you still can. disclaimer: I'm just a grad student and my opinion doesn't count for anything. -- Scott Schwartz "APAR's? We don' neeed no steeenking APARS!"