gonzalez@bbn.com (Jim Gonzalez) (04/11/90)
I called Manx Software Systems (201-780-3072), last month, to confirm that they still carried the CP/M version of Aztec C. A man answered the phone as if it were his home. Uh-oh. I asked about Aztec C for CP/M. He said that the company is now called "MCS", and they no longer support CP/M. I was so disappointed that I forgot to ask if they'd put the CP/M version into the public domain. I've since bought BDS C 1.60c through Jay Sage. I wish there was some way to get intrinsic floating point, perhaps as a compiler option, but it is otherwise a sound, fast compiler. If anyone else is running BDS C under CDOS, I'd be interested in hearing from them. -Jim.
paul@athertn.Atherton.COM (Paul Sander) (04/15/90)
In article <54714@bbn.COM> gonzalez@bbn.com (Jim Gonzalez) writes: >Article-I.D.: bbn.54714 >Sender: news@bbn.COM >Reply-To: gonzalez@vax.bbn.com (Jim Gonzalez) >Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA >Lines: 13 > >I called Manx Software Systems (201-780-3072), last month, to confirm that >they still carried the CP/M version of Aztec C. A man answered the phone >as if it were his home. Uh-oh. I asked about Aztec C for CP/M. He said >that the company is now called "MCS", and they no longer support CP/M. Are you kidding? I just bought copies of Aztec C for Apple ProDOS and CP/M from Manx three weeks ago. When I called, a woman answered the phone in a professional manner, had never heard of what I wanted and passed me along to another woman who was very helpful. She said they BOTH compilers in stock, and I had them in my hand 7 days later (shipped UPS ground). She did admit that she didn't know anyone was still using Apple CP/M, though. I've called their technical support BBS sevaral times, and it seems to be active, and it still answers the phone as "Manx". -- Paul Sander (408) 734-9822 | Beware the programmer whose code paul@Atherton.COM | reusability tool is the "copy" command. {decwrl,pyramid,sun}!athertn!paul |