solomon@chaos.utexas.edu (Thomas Solomon) (05/16/91)
We have been looking into purchasing a UNIX system for a 486/33 EISA PC that we are getting. We are planning on doing extremely fast data acquisition (collecting up to ~1.2 Mbytes/sec of data and storing to disk) and analysis with this machine. For these reasons, it is important for us to get a C-compiler that can take advantage of every scrap of power that the 486/33 offers. Specifically, we want to be sure that whatever compiler _at least_ uses the full 32-bit capabilities of the 486. With all of this in mind, I am a bit suspicious of SCO Unix's use of Microsoft C for their development package. Is this the same Microsoft C that can be obtained for MS-DOS systems? Is it a 32-bit compiler? What about the C++ that is offered? Will this give better performance? If anyone has suggestions about the appropriate compiler to use, we would appreciate it. Thanks. Tom Solomon solomon@chaos.utexas.edu