Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!iuvax!pur-ee!ea.ecn.purdue.edu!wieland From: wieland@ea.ecn.purdue.edu (Jeffrey J Wieland) Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2 Subject: Re: Modula-2 for cp/m-80 (was: turbo Modula-2) Message-ID: <4575@ea.ecn.purdue.edu> Date: 10 Aug 88 14:13:43 GMT References:Reply-To: wieland@ea.ecn.purdue.edu.UUCP (Jeffrey J Wieland) Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network Lines: 21 In article Info-Modula2 Distribution List writes: >Concerning Turbo-M2: I heard (on INFO-CPM or on BIX) that Borland is NOT >supporting the product at all, and with the demise of Echelon I don't know at >all who supports it. That doesn't concern whether you can buy it, but it >probably means that nobody will maintain it, fix bugs etc. I understand that the support for FTL is not much better. One person that I am aware of switched from FTL to TM2 because Workman & Assoc. never responded to the problems he reported with linking in assembly language. Besides, TM2 produces faster (although bigger) code, and for my needs, speed is everything. >I bought FTL-M2 (from Workman & Associates), and so far have been very happy >with it (although I have to admit that I only wrote 20 lines of codes, and then >had other things to do). Installation was very easy using the description in >the manual, as long as you have at least 1MB of disk-space (it's very difficult >on two 8" SSSD disks). Since I have a 1 MB Advent RAM disk, TM2 will leave plenty of room for other utilities. It will comfortably fit on a Kaypro DSDD floppy disk. Jeff Wieland