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From: jason@madnix.UUCP (Jason Blochowiak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Q: Merlin to APW
Message-ID: <1051@madnix.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jan 90 07:34:00 GMT
References: <113300235@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: jason@madnix.UUCP (Jason Blochowiak)
Organization: ARP Software, Madison, WI
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In article <113300235@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> saa33413@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>I can see why you'd want to go from Merlin to APW; I switched from Big Mac
>to the MicroSPARC (now MindCraft) Assembler some time ago.  What eludes me,
>though, is the logic in cross-assembly, which is what you wish to do when you
>go from APW to MPW.

	Apparently you've never worked on a huge project... Although the APW
assembler is pretty nice, and pretty quick, I doubt that it could beat
something running on a Mac ][ci. Also, I'd be willing to bet that there are
more support tools for MPW. Lastly, think about a software house that does
stuff for the Mac & the //gs - if they put large amounts of money into their
Macs (for Mac development), then they can use that power for //gs development,
rather than spending a bunch more money for a //gs development system.

	Btw, I discovered the APW assembler's limitations while working on an
11,000+ line assembly project - it took awhile to remake it, and this is with
a fairly large amount of RAM & a HD.

>| Scott Alfter                          | A keyboard--how quaint!           |
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                      Jason Blochowiak - jason@madnix.UUCP
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