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From: gdtltr@freezer.it.udel.edu (Gary Duzan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Minix ... for PDP-11
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Date: 4 Jun 90 17:56:30 GMT
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In article <2869@crash.cts.com> jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau) writes:
=>>But all in all, getting a Un*x-like O/S to run on your old Atari 800 is
=>>probably the ultimate in a hacking challenge, and I've been having a hell of
=>>a time.
=>
=>Yea, but how are you going to implement the C compiler?  Best C compiler
=>I ever saw for the Atari 8-bit didn't even support structures.  Are you
=>going to write it all in *gasp* assembly?  Maybe Action! by OSS, perhaps?
=>
   There is a relatively new C compiler out called CC65 which is rather good.
It outputs relacatable 6502 assembly and supports structures, unions, and
even funky things like an arrays of pointers to functions. It is the best
Atari 8-bit C compiler so far.

=>Hell of a time is an understatement.
=> 
   Maybe not.

                                        Gary Duzan
                                        Time  Lord
                                    Third Regeneration
                                 Atari Enthusiast Extreme



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