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From: sdyer@bbncca.ARPA (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.6809
Subject: CoCo OS9 C Compiler
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Date: Thu, 15-Mar-84 12:57:59 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 15 12:57:59 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 16-Mar-84 07:56:22 EST
Organization: Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, Ma.
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I just purchased the Microware C Compiler offered by Radio Shack for its
OS9 operating system on the Color Computer.  Very impressive; full K&R,
including floats, doubles and longs, minus multi-line macros and a few
debatable features (like bit fields.) Most of the vanilla STDIO library is
there, too, a function profiler, and a full OS9 system call implementation.
For only $99.95, it's a great deal.  Compare this with the $250-$450 for
most MSDOS C compiler packages.

Some minor points: it comes on two disks; the first contains a cmds
directory containing the compiler passes to be placed in /d0, and the
second contains the libraries and include files to be placed in /d1.  It
would be extremely unwieldy to try to use the package with less than two
disk drives.

A word to the unconverted: where else for under $1200 list, less at some
R/S discounters, can you get a machine with a UNIX-like operating system
with multi-tasking, a hierarchical file system, and a full C development
environment?
-- 
/Steve Dyer
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