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From: sjl@amdahl.UUCP (Steve Langdon)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: MacWorld Expo Report 3: Languages
Message-ID: <2607@amdahl.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 20-Jan-86 02:11:21 EST
Article-I.D.: amdahl.2607
Posted: Mon Jan 20 02:11:21 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 21-Jan-86 07:51:28 EST
References: <1322@sdcsvax.UUCP> <1324@sdcsvax.UUCP> <1325@sdcsvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: sjl@amdahl.UUCP (Steve Langdon)
Organization: Amdahl Corp, Advanced Systems Planning
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Keywords: C Consulair
Summary: Consulair has been busy

In article <1325@sdcsvax.UUCP> jww@sdcsvax.UUCP (Joel West) writes:

> 				Consulair Mac C
> They were swearing at the same Byte benchmark, claiming foul, blaming
> the messenger, etc, etc.  As a former journalist, I say "Sour grapes."
> 
> Consulair has a newer version than that reviewed.  They generate
> direct in-line traps, and support Pascal strings.  The package
> includes MDS.
> 
> No debugger improvements imminent--use MacDB or TMON.
> 
This is a very superficial review of the Consulair offerings.  First, the
Byte benchmark was poor.  Consulair was shipping Mac C 2.x with floating
point and better performance than 1.x in March - months before the November
issue deadline.  A little effort by the author could have resulted in a much
more useful comparison.

Second, Consulair has developed special versions of Mac C to support some
of the new Mac add ons, specifically the GCC Hyperdrive 2000, the Levco
68020/68881 combo, and the Quesse floating point board.

I still recommend Mac C, but as always any buyer should investigate the
alternatives closely.
-- 
Stephen J. Langdon                  ...!{ihnp4,cbosgd,hplabs,sun}!amdahl!sjl

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