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Subject: Need "C" for Terak 11/23 and intelligent systems project
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Date: Tue, 16-Aug-83 20:29:24 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 16 20:29:24 1983
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From:  Ron <FISCHER@RUTGERS.ARPA>

We are about to start a project here at Rutgers investigating intelligent local
system / mainframe processor interaction.  We intend to do lots of neat things
locally to make a nice user interface, not the least of which is a
non-gratuitous window system.  The project's research is going on at a nice
high-level.  However, being an empiricist I want to get my hands dirty working
on some ideas ASAP.

I have dredged up a rather nice Terak computer to do some hacking on until the
project starts buying "official" systems.

Since it appears we'll be using "C" later I need a good "C" software
development environment for use on the Terak.  This particular model is a more
recent one with the 11/23 processor chip set and 2d 8 inch drives.  A cross
compiler running under Tops-20 would be great.  A good public domain compiler
would cause me to JUMPA for joy!

If you have used the language you're recommending, please describe experience.

Thanks for any help,
(ron)
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