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From: ugbowen@sunybcs.UUCP (Devon Bowen)
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Subject: Re: C Power Graphics Library
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Date: Wed, 22-Oct-86 23:02:59 EDT
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In article <3740@caip.RUTGERS.EDU> prindle@nadc writes:

>3. Does anyone who has C Power 128 care to comment on whether the "-p" option
>   of the compiler (i.e. tell compiler not to ask for disk swaps) works 
>   properly?  There is a rumor on the BBS that it doesn't.  If it doesn't,
>   what version do you have?  If it does, also what version do you have?  I'm
>   planning to buy it real soon, but probably should hold off if this option
>   doesn't work, cause answering those swap messages is no fun.

I haven't been able to get the -p option to work on mine, but I haven't
really put it through all cases. I'm not sure of my version number, but
I just got it two months ago. One thing though, with the extra 64k the
128 has over the 64, they built an optional RAM disk. It's 191 blocks
long, and I've found that this is sufficient for compiling in. For example,
I say:  cc 2:test.c  and it gets the compiler from the disk, yet compiles
it on the RAM disk (unit 2), and it doesn't ask for disk swaps! I just got
done writing a fairly large assembler and micro-code simulator for a class
that was quite large, but I managed to keep all the source and object
files on RAM disk and I kept the command files on the disk. Oh, by the
way, the RAM disk is optional, so you can use that extra 64k for program
space if you need it.

When you people are saying graphics packages, do you mean just the standard
library of graphics primatives, or do you mean the full blown packages
with world coordinates, matix transformations, etc?


                                   Devon Bowen (KA2NRC)
                                   Universtiy of Buffalo

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