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From: mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Marc Roussel)
Subject: Re: GeoWorks Ensemble: any comments?
Message-ID: <1991Mar17.165411.18972@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>
Organization: Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto
References: <13085@helios.TAMU.EDU> <399@intuit.intuit.COM>
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1991 16:54:11 GMT

In article <399@intuit.intuit.COM> eshenk@intuit.intuit.COM (Eric Shenk) writes:
>So how do they do it?  They write everything in an object oriented assembler
>of their own development.  Unfortunately, it only works as a cross compiler
>running on Sun 386i's.  The company is more than happy to have you develop
>stuff for GeoWorks but you'll have to do it on Sunn's in their language.
>Bummer.  However, they are planning on brining the development evironment
>down to the real world.

Last I heard, a SDK was at the very top of Berkeley Softworks' list of
priorities.  By the way, the reason that Geoworks is such a nice,
compact environment is that the BSW folk learned their trade on Commodore 64's.
If you can write a responsive windowing interface with all the usual
amenities on a 2MHz 8-bit machine, you can certainly do it on better
hardware.  And if the Commodore SDK is any indication, the PC SDK should
be a pleasant, productive assembly environment.

				Marc R. Roussel
                                mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca