Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-lcc!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!jade!eris!mwm From: mwm@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike (No one lives forever.) Meyer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Amiga good for hacking?? Message-ID: <2705@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: Sat, 7-Mar-87 19:45:27 EST Article-I.D.: jade.2705 Posted: Sat Mar 7 19:45:27 1987 Date-Received: Mon, 9-Mar-87 03:37:10 EST References: <2719@well.UUCP> Sender: usenet@jade.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: mwm@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike (No one lives forever.) Meyer) Distribution: world Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica Lines: 30 In article <2719@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes: >The Exec is the underlying and true core of the Amiga >OS, and it's wonderful. The DOS was written in England by MetaComCo, and >sucks rocks. But you can usually code around the DOS, and there is fame and >fortune to be made in this area. Carefull, there - the stuff written in England is what provides all the nice message passing, library primitives, resource allocation and etc. that people like so much. I think that the real crud is in the attempt to mate a BCPL system with a C system. >Also, get the >MANX compiler. Lattice is cheaper, and that's because it's crud. MANX also >comes with an assembler, Lattice doesn't. Hmm - gee, that sounds like a subjective statement. I'll just point out that for porting code from Unix, Lattice is the better compiler to have (last time I looked, MANX wouldn't even pass as a v7 C compiler, much less anything modern). And that Lattice _does_ come with an assembler. From that, you should be able to decide how much trust to put in Mr. Schwab's compiler judgement. "If your compiler doesn't support structure assignment, get a better compiler." - from comp.lang.c