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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Problem with AMAC
Summary: You are it
Keywords: AMAC, compile errors
Message-ID: <6760@cps3xx.UUCP>
Date: 6 Mar 90 17:06:13 GMT
References: <53063@bbn.COM>
Reply-To: conklin@frith.UUCP (Terry Conklin)
Organization: Engineering, Michigan State University, E. Lansing
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In article <53063@bbn.COM> slackey@BBN.COM (Stan Lackey) writes:
>I am developing something for release, I think lots of people can use
>it.
>-Stan

Thought for the day - if you are in active development, at this point
that makes YOU one of the experts with the answers.

I have compiled probably ten thousand lines in AMAC and never had a
compile time error. Either I was just lucky, or your bug is obscure.
Of course, that could be wrong. I never had the compiled program not
_work_, whether it was byte for byte what the source code said is a
different issue entire.

Has anyone else noticed that AMAC really begs for a hard drive? My guess
has always been that Old Atari Eng. had a hard disk in development and
AMAC's flavor (ever try and use it on a floppy, single-den no RAMdisk?
It was all there was for a looooonnnngggg time) came from the fact that
it was used in-house.

Terry Conklin
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