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From: dtiberio@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio)
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Subject: Re: Computer Architecture question -- Daye Haynie
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Date: 12 May 91 19:27:52 GMT
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In article <1991May8.042432.27636@NCoast.ORG> davewt@NCoast.ORG (David Wright) writes:
>In article <#c4G!au$1@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:
>>Of course it will be some work for NeXT.  However, for the software
>>developers it will be easy, so 99.99% of the current software will run
>>within days on the 88K machines.  While your finally hand-coded
>>assembly code on the Amiga will take quite a bit of effort.
>	I think you are overestimating the number of programs that were
>written in AL on the Amiga. I would not be too afraid to make a bet that
>only games and *maybe* less than 5 commercial packages (not big name ones

>	I have never seen ANY commercial program actually "brag" about being

  He must be referring to Digi Paint, which has advertised 100% AL as a way
to increase speed in a HAM paint program. Otherwise, you are completely
correct in that the only other assembly programs are dinky public domain
2k programs, which I have the GREATEST respect for. Oh, I think some of
the archive programs are gradually moving to AL to optimize speed. But
then again, these are always available in C also.

>written in AL (as you stated in an earlier message), and in fact, the only
>people I have ever seen admit to writing anything other than a small utility
>(which people could live without) in AL were die-hard demo and game coders
>from Europe, who would probably not migrate to the new machine right away
>anyway.
>	I know that 100% of what I write is in C or another HL that I could
>reasonably expect to be available for the new machine, and I would expect to
>be able to simply recompile my own software in a matter of minutes on the
>new machine, just as you say people will do with the nExt.
 						      ^^^^
     I didn't do this one! :)

>	Do you really think that serious programs like WorkPerfect, Maple,
>etc. etc. which are available on many different platforms are written in
>some form of AL?
>
>
>				Dave

  Okay, let's start porting over a nExt emulator so we can have our Amiga
crush one more machine. :)   (Smiley face, because I know that the Amiga
uses a 68000 and not a 6502).


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           David Tiberio  SUNY Stony Brook 2-3481  AMIGA  DDD-MEN   
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