6 May
2005
6 May
'05
11:42 a.m.
On Fri, 6 May 2005, Ethan Dicks wrote:
I remember them in the 1986-1990 timeframe with their
Amiga product.
They were competing with Lattice (later SAS) C. I personally went
with Lattice for several reasons, none of which I can recall right
now. I do remember that Manx did embedded assembly just different
enough from Lattice that it was not trivial to port from one to the
other. Makefiles were different, too.
I have Manx C for the Apple ][. It was really made to be run from a hard
drive. Long ago, I was developing a BBS and needed to convert the message
editor that I'd written in BASIC to something much faster. I could've
done it in machine language but that would've taken more time than I
wanted to spend. I'd known about C and wanted to learn it, and so I
thought this might be a good opportunity to do so: a practical project
needing a solution. So I went about trying to teach myself C on Manx C.
After my first "Hello World!" program took about 3 minutes to compile,
involving multiple disk accesses across different volumes, I gave up and
just used the Beagle Compiler to compile my BASIC program ;)
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