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From: hall@ittral.UUCP (Doug Hall)
Newsgroups: net.micro.apple
Subject: Re: Pascal & C compilers for the //c...
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Date: Sat, 13-Apr-85 23:21:20 EST
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Posted: Sat Apr 13 23:21:20 1985
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Reply-To: hall@ittral.UUCP (Doug hall)
Organization: ITT Telecom B&CC Eng. Group, Raleigh, NC
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Summary: 

Applied Engineering has been advertising a Z-80 card for the Apple
//c. I'm not sure how it installs, but it fits in the case and lets
you use CP/M on the //c, so that opens up Turbo Pascal as a choice of
Pascal compilers on the //c.

Personally, I have both Apple Pascal and Turbo Pascal on my //e. I
never use Apple Pascal anymore unless I need graphics or I'm writing
something for someone without a Z-80 card. Turbo is so much faster,
and I usually find I need all the speed I can get. And neither
compiler even comes close to the performance I get from my Aztec C
compiler. The Aztec compiler itself is extreeeeeeemmmmely slow, but
the resultant code is quite fast, much faster than the code produced
by either Turbo or Apple Pascal.

Aztec runs on the //c as well as the // and //e. So now you have your
choice. Most anything's better than Applesoft.

Doug Hall
ITT Telecom
Raleigh, NC