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From: janl@ifi.uio.no (Jan Nicolai Langfeldt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: HP 48, 95LX - System Specs, Languages
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Date: 14 May 91 09:52:05 GMT
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In article <52808@apple.Apple.COM>, dan@Apple.COM (Dan Allen) writes:
>kanecki@vacs.uwp.edu (David Kanecki) writes:
...
> >2. Does either system have a pascal, c, or fortran compiler that can support
> >    overlays and dyanamic variables?

The 48 does not have any compilers at all (not pascal,c or fortran anyway). 
Not that I'd want it.

> If you want to do serious programming, wait for a portable Macintosh and
> use MPW...

Yeah, if you are a professional programmer who want to program in a
environment completely different from anything else, and plow through
5 volumes of 'Inside Macintosh' and ~250 technical notes: wait
for a portable macintosh. It's a pain to 'port' programs to a Mac,
I've done it (pascal&c&fortran). Anything you want to do is done
differently on a mac. Generaly you '(re)write' programs for a mac.
That however is time consuming. (I've done that too.)
(I'm not going to make this tirade any longer)

Otherwise, port your program to PC taking care to make it able to run on a
hp95. Use any conventional compiler you want.

David:
>My interest in handhelds stems from simulation programs that I have written.
>Currently, I am interested in porting one program that I wrote on a PC and
>CPM machine over to one of these.

If you can make it run on a CP/M machine it shuld be painless to port to
a 95 (provided you can get the propper compiler).

Nicolai, your friendly alaround amateur (bugs made while you wait!).

Nicolai Langfeldt, Internet: janl@ifi.uio.no   
Quote: Life is too important to be taken seriously - Oscar Wilde 
   (translated and retranslated)