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From: mykes@3comvax.UUCP (Mike Schwartz)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Developers unite
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Date: Tue, 10-Dec-85 17:49:42 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 10 17:49:42 1985
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It seems like there are a few developers out there who read the news here.
I wonder what configurations you guys are using to develop for the Amiga.
I have a 512K machine with external floppy and hi-res monitor.  I originally
tried to edit my source files on ram disk, and had my most used commands there,
but 512K isn't enough for decent sized program development.  I now use the
ram disk to hold a few commands and for my lattice 'c' quad files, and 
floppies for everything else.  I find that my compile time is not slow because
of my source being on floppy, but because Lattice 'C' is a big fat slow pig of
a compiler (it takes like 20 seconds to load both passes off floppy), and it
uses its own horrible I/O library (ridiculously slow on the IBM PC too).  I
figure that another huge hunk of time is spent reading in those monsterous 
header files from floppy.  

I plan to use my AT&T 6300 to develop for the near future, until Cardco's
1MB expansion boards are available.  The AT&T machine is real fast (8MHz),
has 10MB of hard disk, and I usually use a 360KB Ram disk, too.  Plus there
are a lot of decent development tools (editors, etc.) already in place.
Pretty funny that IBM PC's (etc.) are still useful for something.  As a
matter of fact, I plan to eventually use my AT&T as a compute/file/print
server for my Amiga.  I hope to even add IBM PC emulation (at full speed)
to my Amiga (in compute server mode), and should be able to run these MS-DOS
programs in a window on my workbench.

/mykes