6 May
2005
6 May
'05
3:56 a.m.
On 5/6/05, Fred N. van Kempen <waltje at pdp11.nl> wrote:
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..
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'm not saying which one was 'better' or 'more like the Unix
environment', but from my experiences with Lattice, it was not hard to
port stuff from comp.sources.games, etc, once one got past differences
between the Unix environment and the Amiga environment vis-a-vis real
VT100s vs text mode consoles, etc., but that wasn't a problem with the
C compiler.
-ethan