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From: jchapman@watcgl.UUCP (john chapman)
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Subject: ms-dos modula implementations?
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Date: Mon, 4-Feb-85 21:26:14 EST
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 I would like to solicit peoples opinions of Modula inplementations
 for MS-DOS systems. If there is sufficient response I'll post a
 summary. Of particular interest to myself are opinions on the
 quality of the Volition (do they still exist?) and Logitech versions,
 or any other implementations (I don't know of any other than Mod.Corp.
 which I am now trying out).  Useful info/comments might/would be:
 
 1. price, availability etc.
 2. available utilities (debugger?)
 3. level of company support
 4. compatibility/extensions etc.
 5. memory, disk requirements
 6. speed of compiler 
 7. speed of code produced
 8. native code or m-code?
 9. Is the compiler just another DOS program or do you have
    to enter a subsystem to use it?
10. If you have to enter a subsystem how good is it?
11. support for 8087, support for systems without 8087s
12. large memory model supported?
13. reasonable access to assembler routines when necessary (relinking the
    whole runtime system with the routine and then accessing it through
    a jump table is not my idea of reasonable).
14. known bugs?
15. char array elements legal as var parameters? is 'x' a char array? 

 and, of course, any other comments you might wish to tender.

 Thanks in advance!