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From: dwp@willett.UUCP (Doug Philips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: Best C Compiler
Message-ID: <705.UUL1.3#5129@willett.UUCP>
Date: 24 Mar 90 01:11:40 GMT
References: <3207@uudell.dell.com>
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In <3207@uudell.dell.com>, jrh@mustang.dell.com (James R. Howard) writes:
> In article <2940@alpha.cam.nist.gov>, koontz@cam.nist.gov (John E.
> Koontz X5180) writes: 
> > If I may humbly enquire, is the MIX's Power C any good?  It seems to be very
> > inexpensive, at $40.00 for compiler and debugger.  
> 
> I bought a copy of it quite a while back.  It seemed fairly good,
> especially for
> the price, which at the time was $25.  A couple problems that I noticed at the
> time were:
I paid $50 for compiler, debugger and library source.

> 	Compiler was slow, and I think it only supported certain memory 
> 	models.  
I have version 1.3.0 (No idea what current version is).  It only supports
the medium memory model.  I have no feel for the speed of the compiler,
I don't have MSC or Turbo or anything else to compare it to.

> I believe that .EXE program execution was very fast, the optimizer was quite
> good, and blew away both MSC and TC on some standard benchmarks.  It was also
> one of the first to have VGA support in the libraries I believe.
It also has floating point support second only to WatCom (the best) and
a small fraction of the cost.  On the PC mags a while back rated
compilers and MIX did very well.  It doesn't have an integrated
environment, at least not the version they had out when I bought it, but
I (personally) hate such things anyway.  I haven't been using it much
since I'm not doing much PC programming anymore.  Its a *great* value.
Especially since you can get library source.

I'm not affliated with MIX except as a very happy customer.

		-Doug

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