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From: ali@rocky.STANFORD.EDU (Ali Ozer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: amiga software - your recommendations
Message-ID: <806@rocky.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: Sun, 6-Dec-87 01:52:43 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec  6 01:52:43 1987
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In article <324@siemens.UUCP> biggers@edsel.UUCP (Mark Biggers) writes:
>- What language implementations do you recommend?  I used MANX C
>for awhile in the past, but the slow turnaround time for
>editing, compiling, editing, debugging can discourage anyone 

With a decent amount of memory (2M or more), and good use of one or more of
the ASDG recoverable ramdisk (VD0:), the Amiga ramdisk (RAM:), and 
the dynamic floppy caching program (FaccII), you can hardly call 
working with Manx C slow. You can keep your editor (MicroGnuEmacs 1b, in my
case) in the background at all times, the library files, and cc, as, etc,
in VD0:, the object files in RAM:, and the sources on floppy... And to avoid
loading the include files over and over, you use Manx's precompiled
include file feature. Believe me, under those circumstances, Manx flies.
And the cost of such a system isn't all that much more --- VD0: is shareware
($10) and FaccII is about $30. In addition you have the cost of extra memory
(~$350-400 for extra 2 Megs for the 2000). Not much at all, if you're really
considering doing development work.

Oh, VD0: is on Fish 58, I believe. A most for anyone with 1 or more Megs.

Ali Ozer, ali@rocky.stanford.edu