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From: jason@lakesys.UUCP (Jason)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Aztec C65-c (Prodos version)
Summary: Since when does Make need Multi-Tasking capabilities?
Message-ID: <787@lakesys.UUCP>
Date: 1 Jul 88 20:35:15 GMT
References: <8806132349.AA06188@decwrl.dec.com> <7370001@hpfclp.SDE.HP.COM>
Organization: Lake Systems, Milwaukee Wisconsin
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In article <7370001@hpfclp.SDE.HP.COM>, wak@hpfclp.SDE.HP.COM (Bill Kwinn) writes:
> > [Questions about Aztec C...]
> > vi? Does it support MAKE? 
>
> [Praise for old version of Aztec]
> excellent.  However, have mercy on your 10 year old 8 bit 6502.  You do
> not get multitasking, so there is no make.  You get a simple shell, with
> [Description of package, praise, etc.]
> 
> Bill Kwinn
> hplabs!hpfcla!wak

	I've never seen an implementation of make for a micro that requires
multi-tasking... I have, however, seen how most makes work, in that they
execute the c compiler (or whatever - spawn a shell to execute a command line)
but not spawing bg processes - is this what you're saying can't be done under
their shell?

	Might as well take the opportunity to plug gsMake while I'm here...
I just finished debugging gsMake, a VERY simplified version of make for use
with the ORCA/APW shell (Hey, it's a 7 block assembly program - I didn't want
to port one from somewhere else. Besides, if I had, it'd be some 40 block
slug that took too long to load and too long to execute) that's ShareWare.
Right now it's distribution is pretty small (some Milwaukee and Minneapolis
bulletin boards), but I'll probably get someone to upload it to GEnie and/or
CompuServe.

	Jason - Not your average iconoclast