surles@robinett.cs.unc.edu (Mark Surles) (04/12/90)
Is there a free, or at least inexpensive, C compiler available for a PS-2 architecture running either PS-2 or MS-DOS operating systems? Thanks, Mark Surles surles@cs.unc.edu
Bob.Stout@p6.f506.n106.z1.fidonet.org (Bob Stout) (04/13/90)
Mix Power C is a pretty decent ANSI C compiler which sells direct from Mix Software in Dallas for $19.95. An additional $30 will add their Power Trace symbolic debugger and complete library source with a bundled assembler. Mix's primary market is education and its 400+ page user's guide contains about the best beginner's tutorial bundled with any compiler. The compiler itself is decent, but no world-beater (what do you expect for $20?) It only supports a single 80x86 memory model and compiles quickly enough to produce generally quick but not particularly compact code. It's best performance comes in its floating point code where performance can often challenge Watcom.