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Subject: Re: Info request for Power C compiler
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Date: 1 Aug 90 05:34:20 GMT
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In article <24163@boulder.Colorado.EDU>, mdperry@boulder.colorado.edu (Marc D. Perry) writes...
> 
>I recently received a package of postcards from BYTE magazine; each
>card contains advertising info on a specific product and one of these
>sounds too good to be true.  For 19.95 MIX software will send you the
>Power C compliler.....

I purchased it and am quite happy with it. Independent benchmarks have shown
Mix's benchmarks to be a bit optimistic. For $20.00 it offers a lot of
nice features and it works well. I used it exclusivly for one of my C 
programming classes and it was fine. The Power C manual also includes
a nice tutorial in C. If you want to spend a bit more (about $65 mail
order) Borland's Turbo C is a nice enviroment to develope in. But Power
C has been doing everything I need so I have not upgraded. Updates for
Power C are also cheap ($5).


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