Message-ID: <134@cernvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 4-Mar-85 07:03:11 EST
Article-I.D.: cernvax.134
Posted: Mon Mar  4 07:03:11 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 7-Mar-85 04:19:33 EST
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Organization: CERN, Geneva/Switzerland
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Now that Abacus have announced their C compiler for the 64 I wake up a bit.
However, since it is expensive ($80 plus postage), especially for us over in
the old continent (remember the $ is so high that it looks like part of the
satellite defence system!), I want to know what I would get.
Questions, therefore:

1. Is it a true compiler, or simply (as many Pascal "compilers") a translator
   from some intermediate object?
2. Are there any practical restrictions (e.g. using the limited 64 stack)?
3. Any benchmarks, e.g. for sieve of Erastosthenes?
4. Any competitor products?

I would be happy to see answers via net.micro.cbm (plus, of course, answers
to the questions that I should have asked but didn't).

		  Mike Gerard, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland