Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!cbnewsj!mec
From: mec@cbnewsj.ATT.COM (michael.e.connick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Question about Atari Portfolio....
Message-ID: <4284@cbnewsj.ATT.COM>
Date: 21 Mar 90 22:19:11 GMT
References: <5146@helios.ee.lbl.gov>
Reply-To: mec@cbnewsj.ATT.COM (michael.e.connick,mt,)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <5146@helios.ee.lbl.gov> antony@lbl-csam.arpa (Antony A. Courtney) writes:
> 
> Has nayone tried writing programs on a regular PC and then downloading them
> to the Portfolio?  Does this work?  Is the thing a tride and true
> PC-compatible?
> 
> I'd only ever want to do very portable C things which I could compile on my
> PC and download to it.
> 
> If this is easily doable, I'll buy the thing in a second....

Buy it then. I've written a couple of Microsoft C programs on a PC and
downloaded them to my Portfolio. They've all worked fine, even a simple
terminal program. The key is to only use standard ROM-BIOS calls to
machine services (which Microsoft C library routines use). If you do so
you shouldn't have any problems programming the Portfolio.

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Michael Connick    mec@mtfmi.ATT.COM    201-957-3057
AT&T Bell Labs     MT 3F-113	        (Dept. 79151)