gwyn@brl-sem.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) (07/20/86)
Manx Software Systems (PO Box 55, Shrewsbury NJ 07701) has just released Aztec C for the Apple ][ under ProDOS (also supports cross-development for DOS 3.3). I have a copy of this and recommend it if you have enough disk (can be used with 2 floppy drives, but that involves a large amount of disk-swapping). The compiler compiles somewhat slowly (I usually go get a cup of coffee while I wait) but produces good code, either native instruction set (for speed) or interpreted (for small size). A CPU accelerator would speed up compilation significantly. The "commercial" package C65-C also includes a shell and several utilities, such as grep, diff, and ved (vi-like editor). The C library is pretty much like 7th Edition UNIX's; I haven't had much trouble porting some of my UNIX applications to the Apple using Aztec C. For more info, see Manx ads in magazines such as Byte.