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From: anderson@midway.ece.scarolina.EDU (Stuart Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Disk Device Driver & Cross Development System
Message-ID: <347@midway.ece.scarolina.EDU>
Date: 11 Apr 88 20:41:26 GMT
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Organization: ECE Dept., USC, Columbia, SC
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Keywords: device driver cross development



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A request and a thought (proposal?)

1.	Does anybody have some code that accesses the disk drive
hardware directly (as in device driver). If someone could send me some,
it would save me hours of pain and grief re-inventing the wheel.

2.	Since there is a public domain C compiler and a PD assembler 
both of which run on other machines, all we would need is a PD linker
and a little utility that makes function stubs from the .fd files
for creating a library (maybe we can use amiga.lib as is) and we
would have a nice PD cross developement system that would let us
develop programs on other computers and download the executable.
This would be nice for those larger programs that require to much memory
or disk space to be developed natively.

Help with #1 would be appreciated, comments on #2 would be interesting.

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