sdyer@bbncca.ARPA (Steve Dyer) (03/15/84)
I just purchased the Microware C Compiler offered by Radio Shack for its
OS9 operating system on the Color Computer. Very impressive; full K&R,
including floats, doubles and longs, minus multi-line macros and a few
debatable features (like bit fields.) Most of the vanilla STDIO library is
there, too, a function profiler, and a full OS9 system call implementation.
For only $99.95, it's a great deal. Compare this with the $250-$450 for
most MSDOS C compiler packages.
Some minor points: it comes on two disks; the first contains a cmds
directory containing the compiler passes to be placed in /d0, and the
second contains the libraries and include files to be placed in /d1. It
would be extremely unwieldy to try to use the package with less than two
disk drives.
A word to the unconverted: where else for under $1200 list, less at some
R/S discounters, can you get a machine with a UNIX-like operating system
with multi-tasking, a hierarchical file system, and a full C development
environment?
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/Steve Dyer
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