Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!claris!krazy From: krazy@claris.com (Jeff Erickson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: The Nifty //GS and Apple Support Message-ID: <9109@claris.com> Date: 20 Mar 89 06:50:44 GMT References: Organization: Claris Corporation, Mountain View CA Lines: 26 From jm7e+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU ("Jeremy G. Mereness"): > > I wish people would stop complaining about the //gs' architecture as the > source of all the problems; dedicated third party vendors get around this, > and the //gs is a dream conpared to the original Mac 512, 8 registers and > all. If decent development systems were made for the GS (on the same level > as ThinkC, TurboC and Turbo Pascal) then developers would not be complaining > as much. But not even Apple has done this, and as with the Mac, they have > to make the first move. They have. Just like on the Mac. It's called MPW. It's a cross-development system. ~~ What!? You can't afford to buy a Mac? Gee, well, I guess you'll have to stick to APW, then. ~~ It's just as well, though. Scott's found (and reported!) lots of MPW IIgs C bugs, mostly in the libraries. Unless you want your program to fit in a single bank (and a few other nasty limitations), it just don't work. Unless you're Scott. Then you rewrite the library routines. :-) -- Jeff Erickson \ Internet: krazy@claris.com AppleLink: Erickson4 Claris Corporation \ UUCP: {ames,apple,portal,sun,voder}!claris!krazy 415/960-2693 \________________________________________________________ ____________________/ "I'm so heppy I'm mizzabil!" -- Krazy Kat