Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!moravian.EDU!nicholaA From: nicholaA@moravian.EDU Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: The Nifty //GS and Apple Support Message-ID: <8903230757.AA27157@batman.moravian.edu> Date: 23 Mar 89 07:57:48 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 57 > >>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. ~~ Um, not really. I used to be a _die hard_ APW person, using all sorts of modified editors and linkers to get APW to perform like it ought to. To properly link ShrinkIT 2.0, I needed a new linker for Merlin 816 (which is what I wrote SrhinkIT 0.7-1.1 with). I borrowed a very fast linker for Merlin 816 from John Brooks (the fellow who wrote Tomahawk/GS), but it really didn't suit my needs. So, It just so happens that Roger Wagner Publishing is now shipping a _very_ fast version of Merlin which runs under GS/OS (not ProDOS 8) and features _significantly_ faster everything. The assembly times are roughly 4-5 times faster than Merlin 816. The link times are 3-4 times faster (for me). I believe that the product is supposed to assemble in the range of 35,000 lines per minute. This is _without_ a Transwarp card, folks. The product is called merlin plus, and it's _very_ fast (at least compared to what we've been used to. No, I'm not affiliated with RWP at all, I just happened to be faily impressed with this. If you do alot of assembly programming to the exclusion of other types of stuff (ie, not linked with C code), then you might want to take a look at the new merlin. Has anyone else bought this? I'd be willing to bet that with a transwarp card, this thing would outrun alot of Mac and PC assemblers, probably in the range of 100,000 lines per minute sustained performace... not all NOPS, either. andy >-- >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 > ---- Andy Nicholas CsNET: shrinkit@moravian.edu Box 435, Moravian College InterNET: shrinkit%moravian.edu@relay.cs.net Bethlehem, PA 18018 liberty!batman!shrinkit@sun.com ---- UUCP: rutgers!lafcol!lehi3b15!mc70!shrinkit I have a CD player, send CD's. rutgers!liberty!batman!shrinkit I have a IIgs, send a GS+. ALink PE: shrinkit