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From: doug@marque.UUCP (harris)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Turbo C and Minix
Message-ID: <1716@marque.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 30-Jun-87 04:54:04 EDT
Article-I.D.: marque.1716
Posted: Tue Jun 30 04:54:04 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 4-Jul-87 18:49:24 EDT
Reply-To: doug@marque.UUCP (harris, douglas)
Organization: Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
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Having just received my Borland Turbo C (the T shirt is swell:-),
having had the Minix diskettes for some time, and having received
and installed the Unix "tar" tape of Minix from PH last week, my
cup overfloweth.  Planning to use Andy's Minix book in the fall
for an intro graduate course in Operating Systems (having just
completed one out of Bach this summer on SysV internals) I'm
wondering how to go on a compilation system for me and for the
class.  Among the options are: get the Amsterdam compiler,
modify Chris Terman's 8086 cross compiler from PC/IP, go with
Microsoft 4.0 used on PCs, or go with Turbo C.  Are there any
experiences of folks (please, absolutely no "my C is better than
your C" stuff) using any of these that they will share? Any email
responses will be  compiled and reposted (guess "compiled" could
be misunderstood :--).  In particular has anyone used Turbo C
yet for the purpose?  It certainly sounds useable after 30
minutes with the manuals provided (does anything sound unuseable
from its manuals - yes, I know, Unix).