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From: mdavis@pro-sol.cts.COM (Morgan Davis)
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Subject: Re: Merlin 8/16
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Date: Fri, 30-Oct-87 18:22:55 EST
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I've been a beta tester of Merlin 16 for about 10 months now and have used it
primarily for ProDOS 8 application development.  I have a lot of that kind of
code, and was using the 8-bit version of Merlin before.  Two statements:

        1.  Merlin 16 is *the* version of Merlin to use for 8-bit
            development on the IIGS.  It's much faster than the older
            version (something like 45% faster).  It has a lot of new
            and very nice features that the older one didn't.

        2.  I use APW assembler for 16-bit application development.

So, if you have a IIGS and you own pre-Merlin 16 versions of Merlin, it's
worth it to update to this higher-performance version.  But I don't really
recommend it for serious IIGS development applications.  Sorry, Glen, it's
just that it's a bit awkward to use since it's based in the ProDOS-8
environment and is limited to a 128k model machine.  That's not why I put
nearly 2 megabytes of RAM in my IIGS.

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