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Subject: Digital Research Compilers ???
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Date: Mon, 14-May-84 12:36:00 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 14 12:36:00 1984
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     Does anyone out there use the Digital Research Compilers now available
for IBM PC-DOS? So far I have used the PASCAL MT+86 compiler from DR and
found it totally acceptable. Unlike Microsoft Pascal, it is very easy to
create large programs in MT+86 as there are extensive overlay and chaining
facilites. (I wrote several large programs in MT+86 in access of 7000 lines).
It also has a pascal source level debugger and the Compact memory model.
There are also several packages of "tools" available from DR which include
Access Manager - a B-Tree subroutine package; Display Manager - a device
independent subroutine package for creating menu's and controlling the
attributes of displays (cursor addressing, hiliting, blinking etc.); GSX-86,
a device independent extension to PC-DOS supporting device drivers for many
color cards, printers and plotters. All these tools are callable from high
level languages such as MT+86.

     Has anyone used the DR C Compiler? A review in microsystems claimed
that it was the fastest C compiler (among DSmet, Lattice, CIC86 etc) and
supported all memory models, Small, Medium, Compact and Large. They also
claimed that the fledging DR compiler was run against a PDP 11 Unix C
compiler to ensure Unix compatiblility! 

                                         Sam Chin (NYU)