nevius@fluke.UUCP (02/25/87)
I am looking into the implications of constructing a program that
will be run on personal computers in both the US/Europe and Japan.
Since the PC of choice for US/Europe seems to be the IBM PC (and
clones) it is fairly straight forward to define this beast to allow
the prompts to be written in the language of choice. Japan seems to
pose a different problem, I know the market leader (NEC 9800) is
not a MS-DOS machine, but what I don't know is what the cross development
tools are like.
Does anyone out there have any experience with this problem????
Thanks much for your help!
John Nevius
John Fluke Mfg. Co. Inc.
P.O. C-9090 MS-266D
Everett, WA.
98206
(206)-356-5068
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fluke!nevius@uw-beaver.ARPAberger@clio.UUCP (02/27/87)
On the contrary, the 9801 series is an ms-dos machine, though
not IBM-PC compatible. There's a hardware SLE board that emu-
lates the PC if you absolutely need it.
Generic ms-dos programs work fine. The machine is superior in
many ways to the standard PC.
The 9801 is very much like the APC-3 offered in the U.S., while
the newer APC-4 is a real AT compatible.
Mike Berger
Center for Advanced Study
University of Illinois
berger@clio.las.uiuc.edu
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