Date   : Mon, 09 Apr 1984 16:16:00 EST
From   : leisner.henr@Xerox.ARPA
Subject: Re: Looking for C

Alan,

I've used Whitesmith, Aztec and BDS.

Impressions:

Whitesmith runs too slow to be a useful too.  In addition, the standard
IO libraries are not Unix compatible, which makes it difficult to write
portable code.  Whitesmith is also expensive.

BDS see screams through your source code and spits out a com file in
record time.  It is only a subset of C,  if you can live with it, it is
an excellent tool.

Aztec C is the most Unix compatible C compiler I've seen on Cpm.  Its
performance to compile code is somewhere between BDS and Whitesmiths.
However, they advertise it is truly Unix compatible and it seems to be.

You might want to look at the August , 1983 issue of By te for more
information.

Marty Leisner
Xerox Corp.