Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!purdue!gatech!emcard!mat
From: mat@emcard.UUCP (Mat Waites)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: C compilers
Message-ID: <5490@emcard.UUCP>
Date: 16 May 88 19:30:17 GMT
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Reply-To: mat@emcard.UUCP (Mat Waites)
Organization: Emory University Cardiac Data Bank
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Power-c is the only choice for compiling any language that I have tried on
the 64. Super C is copy protected and thus disables any fast-load type
cartidges.  I tried their pascal too, and couldn't live with the "custom"
file system.

Power C has a real compiler (no P code), and a REAL linker. They
even allow you to build libraries of routines. This is a contrast to
the Abacus products which have all of the system routines in a big hunk.

The system is reasonably fast on compiles if you have two disk drives and
get the Spinnaker Turbo load cartridge. One of the stacks used by the
system is in the cassette buffer, and this kills most other fast-load
cartridges (like FastLoad).

ProLine has a bbs with some source code and stuff (they originally distributed)
but its in Canada and too expensive for me to call more than once in a lifetime.

Good Luck

mat




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