Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!UCONNVM.BITNET!STEIN From: STEIN@UCONNVM.BITNET (Alan Stein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Disassemblers Message-ID: <8904182009.aa24817@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> Date: 18 Apr 89 22:15:19 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 35 >In article <28817@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> edward@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Edward > Wang) writes: >>While on the subject, what are people's opinions of Orca? >>It seems pretty complete, comes with a nice shell, and so on, >>but the assembler is slow, and the editor hard to use. >>How does it compare with Merlin? (I got Orca mostly becase >>it came on a 3 1/2 disk.) .... > >I'd also like some opinions on the Orca software (Desktop, /M, Pascal, etc.) >as compared to APW. I'm thinking seriously about purchasing a programming >shell and languages, but I'm not sure which is best. Suggestions? I've seen >lots of ads for Orca stuff but none for APW... > >Thanks a lot. > >-- Jeff Hartkopf APW and Orca are essentially the same. Both were designed by ByteWorks and the only significant difference I know of is that some macros have different names. (Why did they do that?) I have Orca's desktop and have found that, while it's fun to play with, it's generally easier to use Orca's shell environment, which is basically the same as the APW environment. Although I haven't used many assemblers, I've been pleased with Orca/M, although the documentation leaves something to be desired. Alan H. Stein | stein@uconnvm (Bitnet) Department of Mathematics | 71545,1500 (CompuServe) University of Connecticut | ah.stein (GEnie) 32 Hillside Avenue | stein%uconnvm.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu (Internet) Waterbury, CT 06710 | {psuvax1 or mcvax }UCONNVM.BITNET!STEIN (UUCP) (203) 757-1231 |