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From: manis@ubc-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Megamax C vs. Mark Williams C
Message-ID: <992@ubc-cs.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 11-Apr-87 21:34:27 EST
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Posted: Sat Apr 11 21:34:27 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 12-Apr-87 20:05:36 EST
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Reply-To: manis@ubc-cs.UUCP (Vincent Manis)
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In article <12293477492.22.POPE@KL.SRI.COM> POPE@KL.SRI.COM (David Pope)
writes:

>Finally, is  serious  C  development possible  with  one  double-sided
>floppy, a one  megabyte machine,  and a large  ramdisk?  Would  either
>Megamax or MWC be more suitable for use with the hardware I have?   Is
>a second floppy or hard disk advisable?

I recently posted a rave review of MWC to this newsgroup. After using it for
a couple of weeks (interrupted by a dead monitor for a few days) my raves
have if anything increased. It provides a complete development environment,
including a nice shell which isn't quite like the Bourne, C, or Korn shells,
the standard utility programs, and nice libraries.

I've configured my system with one double-sided disk containing most of the
utilities and libraries, the compiler and editor on the ramdisk, and
source/object code on another drive. You certainly can use it on a
single-drive system, but it would be pretty horrible (the manual says you
can use it on a 520 with a single-sided drive, but I wouldn't want to try
that). I know at least one person who uses it on the configuration David
has, and he seems pretty happy with it.

The big win with MWC is that it does fussy type checking. That turns out to
make some code I've got over the net not compile, but I really like
compilers which force me to make sure I know what I'm doing. The compiler
really does catch a lot of stupid errors (maybe you folks don't make them,
but I do).

In my last posting, I mentioned that I'd bought my copy from a firm called
MicroTyme, for US$119. A lot of people asked for address and phone number.

   MicroTyme
   P.O. Box 368
   Kettering, OH 45409
   1-800-255-5835 (US only) or 1-513-294-6236

Disclaimer: I have no affiliation with MicroTyme or Mark Williams Co.
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