Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Okay, you Amiga Types, its time to bash your amiga. :) Message-ID: <7692@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 3 Feb 91 04:56:11 GMT References: <57522.664073195@atronx.OCUnix.On.Ca> <91031.190832JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu> <91031.215406WTW101@psuvm.psu.edu> Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX Lines: 24 In article <91031.215406WTW101@psuvm.psu.edu> WTW101@psuvm.psu.edu (Bill Warner) writes: > Yea, and the ONLY reason I have an AT bridgecard with a dedicated hard drive > and a VGA card is so I can run Turbo C, Pascal, Debugger, etc. Nothing on the > Amiga even comes close. Yeh, I've run into people who try to write and debug multitasking programs for UNIX this way. We had one of them at Ferranti... the code ends up in a mess of #ifdefs for DOS, and we have a horrible time working with it on UNIX. Plus once he's "ported" this UNIX program to UNIX he can't usefully debug it on DOS so he has to use the UNIX tools anyway. And, of course, he doesn't know them as well as he should... I haven't seen anything for DOS or UNIX that comes close to Aztec C with SDB, and I'm sure the same is true of Lattice's symbolic debugger. It's not due to any special virtue in SDB or CPR, just how the Amiga environment helps debuggers. > As soon as Turbo stuff comes out on the Amiga I can sell the bridgeboard > and buy a 3500! Quit holding your breath... get the A3000 now. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .