mykes@3comvax.UUCP (Mike Schwartz) (12/11/85)
It seems like there are a few developers out there who read the news here. I wonder what configurations you guys are using to develop for the Amiga. I have a 512K machine with external floppy and hi-res monitor. I originally tried to edit my source files on ram disk, and had my most used commands there, but 512K isn't enough for decent sized program development. I now use the ram disk to hold a few commands and for my lattice 'c' quad files, and floppies for everything else. I find that my compile time is not slow because of my source being on floppy, but because Lattice 'C' is a big fat slow pig of a compiler (it takes like 20 seconds to load both passes off floppy), and it uses its own horrible I/O library (ridiculously slow on the IBM PC too). I figure that another huge hunk of time is spent reading in those monsterous header files from floppy. I plan to use my AT&T 6300 to develop for the near future, until Cardco's 1MB expansion boards are available. The AT&T machine is real fast (8MHz), has 10MB of hard disk, and I usually use a 360KB Ram disk, too. Plus there are a lot of decent development tools (editors, etc.) already in place. Pretty funny that IBM PC's (etc.) are still useful for something. As a matter of fact, I plan to eventually use my AT&T as a compute/file/print server for my Amiga. I hope to even add IBM PC emulation (at full speed) to my Amiga (in compute server mode), and should be able to run these MS-DOS programs in a window on my workbench. /mykes