6 May
2005
6 May
'05
6:32 a.m.
On Fri, 6 May 2005, John Foust wrote:
At 04:15 AM 5/6/2005, Fred N. van Kempen wrote:
Yes, sorry. It was Aztec. Very neat little compiler. On
more
thought, it did NOT have a Make included, I believe I stole the
one from Borland, or some PD make.
I remember using a very much UNIX-like C
environment for DOS,
called "Manx C". It was small, has the usual "make-cc-as-ld-ar"
setup, and produced nice code. What happened to them? This was
around ~84 or so..
Nitpick: Manx Software was the company, "Aztec C" was the product,
but it often became "Manx C" in conversation. I think they closed
up shop in the mid 90s. Back in the Amiga days, both Lattice and Manx were
small enough
that the guys who wrote the compilers would hang out at the developer
conferences, so we all knew Jim Goodnow, the main brains behind
their C compiler. Same for the original guys at Lattice and
the later SAS team at Lattice. They were always showing off their
latest features in order to entice developers to switch.
Many developers owned Lattice because it was the first officially
supported compiler. Jim was quick to come up with many features
that outpaced Lattice.
I remember Jim explaining how they got started with cross-compilation
on a PDP-11, moving into the 6502 market with Apple II, and Z-80
undr CP/M, then to the 68000 market with Mac, Atari and Amiga,
as well as a PC version.
Gawd, I would love a copy of that compiler again,
especially if
they used the (more or less same) codebase for several backends,
most of which I use ;-)
--f