Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!rutgers!apple!keith
From: keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Apple 3.5 drives
Message-ID: <18408@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 7 Oct 88 18:31:54 GMT
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Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <15099@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> c60c-3aw@web-3d.berkeley.edu (Andy McFadden) writes:
>Keith: Are these sources C, Assembler, Pascal, GS BASIC, or what?  The logical
>place to put them is comp.binaries.apple2, but I'm not sure if everyone can
>reach that.
>
Andy,

There are 13 programs altogether. Of them, 2 are in C: a shell program, and a
text file lister that serves as a utility and a sample of the Print Manager.
All the rest are in assembly. This is for a several reasons: 1) the assember is
*MUCH* faster than the C compiler; 2) the code generated by the C compiler is
not very compact; 3) some of the programs would be more difficult or impossible
to do in other languages (like custom windows in GS BASIC); 4) Apple only has
an assember and a C - we couldn't do them in Pascal without endorsing a 3rd
party product - so that leaves C and assembly; 5) Neither Jim or I particularly
like C, and we were only 2 programmers on this project.

Since I am distributing source code, I was looking for comp.sources.apple, but
if there isn't one, I was going to post to comp.binaries.apple. I'll let you
all know what I do as soon as I do it.



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