rhl@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk (Robert Hartill) (01/25/91)
Thanks to all those who repsonded to my request for opnions on which OS I
should use to develop a real-time OS, for a 80386.
I want to produce 32bit code for the 386 (from C/C++)
I suggested in my original posting that debugging would be easier from DOS
(thinking of the Turbo Debugger's 386 debugger).
Anyway I received 8 replies,
3 in favour of DOS -1 using Watcom C
-1 'cos of the Turbo debugger
-1 using Lattice C
5 in favour of UNIX -3 'cos of the software tools
-3 'cos of core dump in aiding debugging
-1 suggesting gcc / g++
In my opinion the arguments for Unix were stronger than those Dos.
The dos people tend to recomend specific products, whereas the Unix
people praise the development environment of the OS.
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Further comments would be appreciated,
I'll probable opt for UNIX, so other than Zortech C++ for SCO sysV/386,
are there any other '386 compilers out there ?
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:: Robert Hartill, Dept Of Computing Mathematics, UWCC, Cardiff, UK. ::
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