Date   : Mon, 17 Dec 1990 15:12:14 GMT
From   : van-bc!cynic!pevans@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Phillip Evans)
Subject: Is MIX C still available for cp/m?

pevans@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca (Phillip Evans) writes:

> gonzalez@bbn.com (Jim Gonzalez) writes:
>    [...some stuff deleted...]
> 
> 
> > By the way, they claim to support the full K&R standard, including bit
> > fields plus enums and structure assignments.  You may not want to use these
> > features yourself, but it's increasingly likely that you'll encounter them
> > in PD source.  Just yesterday I was burned by BDS C's refusal to allow
> > static assignment of character arrays.  This further complicated building
> > of sgrep from a C Users' Group diskette.  I *still* prefer BDS C to Aztec C
> > for stuff I need to run small and fast, though.
> > 
> > On the other hand, be sure that these advertised features are actually
> > in the *CP/M* version; many commercial vendors are simply selling older
> > versions, having ceased development years ago.  These often started as
> > "subset" compilers, and were done well before enums, etc. became popular.
> > Good luck.  
> > 
> > Oh yes, please post what you learn, particularly about the status of their 
> > CP/M support.
> > 
> >                              -Jim.
> 

Sorry about the messed up quoting above, guys.  Still learning this 
editor.  
Anyway I ahve MIX C for CP/M and it IS K&R standard.  The split screen 
editor is a seperate package, which I also have.  The editor uses a lot 
of overlays, so it would be slow on a floppy; on a HD it's ok, on a 
ramdisk it would be great.  It's a very complete editor - you can 
redefine EVERYTHING, it does macros, it works on disk based files 
(there's another slowdown) and it comes quite well documented.
 
All this I got some (3?) years ago so it might not be available but if it 
is go for it.  The compiler has BIOS routines, a speedup optimizer, and a 
shrink optimizer, and a linker I think.  The tutorial is really good - 
you can learn C from it.