[comp.editors] BRIEF and CRISP availability

berg@marvin.e17.physik.tu-muenchen.de (Stephen R. van den Berg) (02/18/91)

>Re Brief:  It sounds perfect.  A few questions:  Is it enormous, or can
>it run off a floppy?  Where can I get it nd how much does it cost?

BRIEF:

Enormous?  I wouldn't know, that's subjective. Smallest run time environment
is something like, say, 150K.  Complete development environment (for the
macro language, including debugger and several macro-language programs) is
about, say, 700K.  (No guarantees, just estimates).

Yes, it can be ran off a floppy, but the startup time will be a bit long,
I gather (because several macro files have to be loaded in).  Harddisk
recommended.

As far as I know, it can only be ordered in the States.  It's being
produced by a firm known as UnderWare Inc. (sic).  For availability
and price I suggest that you check BYTE magazine and look for a 2 or 3 page
add from "The Programmer's Paradise" or something like that.
BRIEF should be in there somewhere.

CRISP:

Was posted to comp.sources.misc a while back.  Look in your favourite
archive under: comp.sources.misc/volume.7/crisp1.9
Should be about 33 parts.
--
Sincerely,                 berg@marvin.e17.physik.tu-muenchen.de
           Stephen R. van den Berg.
"I code it in 5 min, optimize it in 90 min, because it's so well optimized:
it runs in only 5 min.  Actually, most of the time I optimize programs."