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From: braner@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU (braner)
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Subject: Re: 1040ST questions (C compilers)
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Date: Thu, 23-Oct-86 23:40:30 EST
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Posted: Thu Oct 23 23:40:30 1986
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Summary: MWC good for "developers", not "personal" use!

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From what I've heard, Mark Williams C is great.  The remaining
problems are supposed to be solved in the next release.

BUT:  (THE CATCH!!!)  You HAVE to have a hard disk to make any
serious use of it!!!  It is FAR too slow on floppies (to my taste).
(And you HAVE to have TWO DOUBLE-SIDED floppies if you want to go
that way...)  It is too slow on a hard disk, too!

So in my opinion Megamax is still the only viable option for
"personal" (low-budget) use, and is superior to MWC in speed
of compilation which is important to all users.

Consider:  Megamax is so compact I put the compiler, linker, libraries,
microEMACS, utilities (from micro-C-Shell) in a (576K) RAM disk,
and still have some 250K free RAM disk space left!  In the rest of my
1040's RAM I have micro-C-Shell resident, and enough space to run
all those things one at a time.  Compiling and linking (all the way to a
.prg file) a small (2-page) program takes about 15 seconds, all done in RAM.
(MWC on a hard disk is an order of magnitude slower.)  I can
put the source for microEMACS (180K) on the RAM disk, and compile
it completely in RAM!

Now if only somebody would figure out how to make Megamax and I/O redirection
from within Micro-C-Shell work together...

- Moshe Braner