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From: mab@druak.UUCP (Alan Bland)
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Subject: Re: Which C compiler is better?.
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Date: Fri, 6-Jun-86 10:38:51 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun  6 10:38:51 1986
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> > Can anyone offer wisdom regarding the relative merits of Abacus and
> > Proline C compilers for the C-128?  I myself have the C-Power (Proline)
> > for my C-64 and am happy with it (although I have not used it nearly
> > as much as I would like to, and therefore probably am not as familiar
> > with it as some of you).  I have heard mostly comments favoring C-Power.

If you like C Power 64, you'll love C Power 128!  The C128 version includes
support for 80-column fast mode, 64K ram disk, up to 4 disk drives supported
in the shell.  You can copy the compiler and translator into the ram disk
if you wish, which speeds up compiling quite a bit.

The shell has a few enhancements, mostly dealing with disk support. 
There's a "cp" command to copy files from one disk to another.  You can
enable and disable the ram disk, depending on how you want to use the
extra 64K.  You can choose your own colors for the shell and editor. 
The shell uses the same character set as the editor (curly brackets look
like curly brackets now!).  In 80-column mode, this almost seems like UNIX.

Large programs link much easier - the linker has more memory to play with,
so there's no need to load libraries several times.

The documentation is improved, but it still could use a lot of work.
The manual even comes in a binder! :-)  The page numbers in the index are
wrong, and there are some places that still refer to the C64.  There's now
a tutorial on how to use the software, but it's at the end of the manual.

Programs from the C64 seem to port fine to the C128, unless you use
peeks, pokes, and sys.  C64 programs must be recompiled to run on the C128.

Overall, I'm very pleased with C Power 64 and 128, and Pro-Line's support
of their products.  If you want a C compiler for your C64 or C128, you
can't go wrong with these products.
-- 
Alan Bland
AT&T Information Systems, Denver CO
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