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From: JDA@NIHCU.BITNET (Doug Ashbrook)
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Subject: APW versus ORCA/M
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Date: 8 Mar 88 16:32:09 GMT
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The January 1988 issue of "Call -A.P.P.L.E."  had an excellent
article by Mike Westerfield titled "Programming on the Apple IIgs
with APW and related products: A survey of APW products" (pages
26-30).  Among other things, it described the differences between the
APW, ORCA/M, and ORCA/Pascal environments.

Maybe several excerpts will answer the most often asked questions.
"Apple contracted with the Byte Works to translate and extend
ORCA/M..."  to become the APW shell.  "Besides the shell, there are
three areas where the two systems differ.  The first is the linker."
ORCA/M comes with a linker used from the command line.  The APW
linker can also be used from the command line, "but it also has a
script-driven mode."  "The second major difference is the macros that
come with each system."  "Finally, the documentation is considerably
different."

The February 1988 issue of "Call -A.P.P.L.E."  had another excellent
article by Mike Westerfield titled "Programming on the Apple IIgs
with APW and related products:  Using APW on small systems" (pages
31-36).  This article described how you can set up an APW based
system when you have less than 1.25 megabytes.  The bottom line is
that you will need about 400-700K for a small APW based system--the
exact size depends on the language and options that you select.

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