u557593877ea@ucdavis.UUCP (u557593877ea) (10/10/85)
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I am interested in purchasing a C compiler and am consider the BDS compiler.
I am using a Z80 system with CP/M80. I would appreciate any thoughts or
experiances on this or other low-priced compilers (under $200).
Thanks in advance...
Bruce Martin
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(UUCP) ...!{ucbvax,dual}!ucdavis!deneb!u557593877eaGhenis.pasa@XEROX.ARPA (10/15/85)
Think twice about getting BDS C: it may compile very fast, but it is non-standard enough to make porting a pain. If you have no intention of ever recompiling your code on another system that's fine, otherwise... More standard low price compilers for CP/M are C/80 with Mathpak (produces very efficient code) and Q/C (comes with source code!) among others. MIX C was been prematurely anounced at $39.95 three months ago and they aren't shipping yet (hmm...). Check the C compiler reviews in Dr. Dobbs, Byte and Computer Language for some very complete info.
jans@mako.UUCP (Jan Steinman) (10/19/85)
In article <2130@brl-tgr.ARPA> Ghenis.pasa@XEROX.ARPA writes: >...MIX C was been prematurely anounced at $39.95 three months ago >and they aren't shipping yet (hmm...). Agreed, it was prematurly anounced, by they *are* shipping. Someone I worked with just got his copy. Some time ago, I posted a favorable review for the MIX editor. In all my spare time :-) I plan to evaluate the MIX compiler, also. -- :::::: Artificial Intelligence Machines --- Smalltalk Project :::::: :::::: Jan Steinman Box 1000, MS 61-405 (w)503/685-2956 :::::: :::::: tektronix!tekecs!jans Wilsonville, OR 97070 (h)503/657-7703 ::::::
jb@terak.UUCP (John Blalock) (10/21/85)
> I am interested in purchasing a C compiler and am consider the BDS compiler. > I am using a Z80 system with CP/M80. I would appreciate any thoughts or > experiances on this or other low-priced compilers (under $200). > Thanks in advance... Be sure to check out the MIX C compiler. When I called in my VISA order about 4 weeks ago, the CPM-80 version was ~3 weeks from shipping, seems they wanted to update it to include features they'd added to the IBM-PC version. I received the CPM-80 version last week along with a very excellent manual. The tutorial is the best written introduction to C that I've found and I've looked at and/or purchased many. Now if the compiler is anywhere near as good as the manual... John Blalock, W7AAY uucp: ...{amd,decvax,hao,ihnp4,seismo}!noao!terak!jb phone: (602) 998-4800 us mail: CalComp Display Products Division (formerly Terak Corporation) 14151 N. 76th St., Scottsdale, AZ 85260