Xref: utzoo comp.lang.c++:1679 comp.unix.aux:378 comp.sys.mac.programmer:2548 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!cs.tcd.ie!tcdmath!hugh From: hugh@maths.tcd.ie (Hugh Grant) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.unix.aux,comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: C++, A/UX, and Mac OS Keywords: C++, A/UX, Macintosh Message-ID: <49@maths.tcd.ie> Date: 23 Sep 88 23:39:32 GMT References: <7114@well.UUCP> Reply-To: hugh@maths.tcd.ie (Hugh Grant) Organization: Maths Dept., Trinity College, Dublin Lines: 42 In article <7114@well.UUCP> richer@well.UUCP (Mark H. Richer) writes: > >Is anyone using C++ on A/UX? >So far I know of two sources of C++ for A/UX: >(1) I spoke with someone from Oasys that said that they are shipping >their C++ 1.2 (binary) product for A/UX now. I believe it is $795. Has >anyone seen it on A/UX? The A/UX version of designer C++ works quite well (allowing for the overall performance of A/UX anyway). It works as well as on any other system (being a straightforward port onto the A/UX Uniplus+ System V O.S.) >They claim that they have fixed some of the bugs in 1.2 and that they >have written a more efficient front-end. Has your experience shown >that Oasys' version of C++ is substantially better than what AT&T >ships with source? Oasys actually distribute Glockenspiel's designer C++. Glockenspiel have put a lot of effort into improving the AT&T code and have made over 300 bugfixes and have rewritten much of the code to achieve performance gains. Also the Glockenspiel product has had a lot of work put into it to make it portable across a wide variety of systems (from the PC to VAX/VMS to Sun4). Glockenspiel C++ is *very much* better than the AT&T version. >(2) For $2,000 we (as a commercial entity) could license the source >code from AT&T and port it ourselves. Why bother when it's been done already? >...The main advantage is that we >could try to port it to the Mac OS as well as to A/UX.... That would cause problems, especially if you use one of the incremental compilers such as Lightspeed. The Mac OS is quite different and would require quite a bit of change to the user interface to C++. I'm sure Glockenspiel would do a port if there was sufficient interest. Why not contact them? There number is +353-1-364515 -- Hugh