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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: Intel-8086/80186-Assembler for System-V available ?
Message-ID: <7OF68+B@xds13.ferranti.com>
Date: 15 Oct 90 12:15:59 GMT
References: <:C96DR1@xds13.ferranti.com> <15919@bfmny0.BFM.COM> <1990Oct11.084750.1183@orfeo.radig.de> <96@calcite.UUCP>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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In article <96@calcite.UUCP> vjs@calcite.UUCP (Vernon Schryver) writes:
> Maybe PLM*86 would run faster as a native UNIX program.  Who cares?  It
> would generate the same code.

But as you mention the rest of the tools are slow, too. And if the job gets
big enough you can't bind it under UNIX, because it's too big for UNXUDI, and
the Xenix version uses up too much VM because of a problem in x286emul.

> Anyone with freedom of choice (i.e. no dusty albatrosses) would choose
> almost any C compiler.

But intel *does* claim to support the thing. To not provide support for the
best development systemm they offer is lunacy.
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
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