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From: alien@gcc-opus.ARPA (Alien Wells)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: mac C compilers
Message-ID: <155@gcc-opus.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 3-Dec-84 12:15:46 EST
Article-I.D.: gcc-opus.155
Posted: Mon Dec  3 12:15:46 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 9-Dec-84 06:29:03 EST
References: <1882@nsc.UUCP> <20800001@smu.UUCP> <1285@hao.UUCP>
Reply-To: alien@gcc-opus.UUCP (Alien Wells)
Organization: General Computer Company, Cambridge Ma (creators of Ms. Pacman)
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Summary: 

In article <1285@hao.UUCP> ward@hao.UUCP (Mike Ward) writes:
>
>I have not had the need to call the Manx people, but I did call
>the Megamax folks, and they were helpful in the extreme.  Researched
>my problem, then called back in a very short time.
>

I HAVE had an occasion to call the Manx people.  We got a version of their
compiler in house for evaluation.  I took a small application (small enough
that it didn't require segmentation) that we were doing and tried to get it
to compile.  All I got was 'out of space'.  I moved to a fat mac.  Same
result.

Repeated calling was to no avail.  Usually, the line is busy or no-one answers.
When I got someone, it was a salesman who I was finally able to get a tech
number out of.  The tech number had no reply for almost a week.  When I got 
someone, he promised to 'look into it'.  This was about a month ago.

Turns out, I don't really care any more.  Looking at some *puny* things that
compiled showed the code generated was pretty bad.  Classic case of a general
purpose portable compiler, though it is at least better than Sumaccs.

I have had good luck, though, talking with both Megamax and Consulair.  All
in all, I would recommend Megamax for anyone wants mac stand-alone C.

					Alien

PS:  Don't delude yourself.  If you are going to do any serious development,
you have to have a hard disk, either a HyperDrive or an external hard disk.