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From: wee@iris.ucdavis.edu (Chris Wee)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Re: C/80
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Date: 28 Oct 88 00:18:17 GMT
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>If anyone has used either C/NIX or C/80, could they please post their
>opinions on the worth of these programs?

I bought C/80 for my H-89 CP/M computer many, many moons ago.  Back then,
I couldn't afford anything else and @ $49, I thought C/80 was the greatest
thing since sliced bread.  I still feel that way.  I received updates for
longs and float/doubles later and some other stuff, so you can do serious
work with it.  For $49, it a an extremely stable and solid product.  Yes,
C/80 is missing a few things - bit fields and I can't remember what else,
but it produces fairly tight code and has a farily fast compile time.
Dr. Dobbs published an article featuring a peephole optimizer for Z80/8080
C compilers a few years ago and that optimizer is available in their C Chest.

I still write software for embedded controllers using the Z-80,
but not using C/80 unfortunately.  I still wish I could switch to it...

Chris