Hess.Unicorn@MIT-MULTICS@sri-unix.UUCP (10/10/83)
Regarding Computer Innovations C-86: I have been hearing about the "object code optimizer" for more than a year now. Don't hold your breath waiting for the next version "about to come out". Their library is nice, though. The reason that Lattice C doesn't come with a librarian is because you're supposed to get the Microsoft one. And you do, if you don't get PC-DOS. It hardly seems reasonable for Lattice to go and buy something you're supposed to get free anyway. Well, then again, maybe it does -- some folks license MS-DOS in order to have their disks be self-booting, just to eliminate that ONE installation step. Just saw a copy of something called "The El Paso C Compiler". Not too bad if you use register variables, and only a little worse than Lattice if you don't. No more info yet; has anybody else used it? Brian