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From: rick@pcrat.UUCP (rick)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.sys.intel,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Intel 8086 C Cross Compiler Wanted
Message-ID: <413@pcrat.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 3-Nov-87 22:19:07 EST
Article-I.D.: pcrat.413
Posted: Tue Nov  3 22:19:07 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 7-Nov-87 04:01:40 EST
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Organization: PC Research, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ
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Keywords: 8086 C
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In article <3095@husc6.UUCP> martillo@husc11.UUCP (Yakim Martillo) writes:
>In article <2104@cci632.UUCP> djh@cci632.UUCP (Daniel J. Hazekamp) writes:
>>We are in need of Intel 8086 family Cross Development Tools. The package
>>should include C compiler, assembler, linker, librarian, hex file generator,
>>and possibly debugger. The package must run under 4.3BSD Unix on a VAX 11/780
>
>The MIT AI Lab has the Terman C compiler for the 8088/8086 which runs
>under 4.* Unix.  Bell Labs has the Basic 16 tools which run under sys
>5.*.  Given the availability of fairly good compilers MSC and TurboC
>which run directly on the PCs, cross compiling does not seem to be the
>best way to do development.  

OASYS (Waltham, MA) has ports of Microsoft C version 5.0 for Sun, Apollo,
VAX/VMS, and VAX/Ultrix.  They have the exclusive contract to provide
ports of the Microsoft C Cross Development System.  I doubt you could
find a better solution.  They seem willing to do other ports, and
the price for a new port is supposed to be around $15,000.  The number
is (617) 890-7889.

For my money, I'd much rather develop software on a large machine,
where it's easy to share files with other developers, and there's
somebody who is paid to make sure that the files get backed up.

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