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From: jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Minix ... for PDP-11
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Date: 6 Jun 90 06:36:03 GMT
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gdtltr@freezer.it.udel.edu (Gary Duzan) writes:
>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.

If you have some new tools out there, then you might as well use them.  I'm
basing my opinion on my experience with how the Atari 8-bit world was back
about three to four years ago when I still had a 130XE.
 
     // JCA

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