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Date: Mon, 26-Nov-84 18:47:14 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 26 18:47:14 1984
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I'm thinking of purchasing a Fat Mac w/2 drives to use as a software
development system, and I'd like to get some feedback on the feasibility
of such use.  In particular:

1. Is the Mac Assembler/Debugger a viable software development tool
   for machine language programming?  Has Apple produced a reasonably
   bug-free version, able to handle large source files, with linking
   capability, and so forth?

2. Are there any worthwhile implementations of C available for the Mac?
   (E.g. how do they shape up as regards portability, size limitations
    on source code, Kernighan&Ritchie adherence, etc.)
   I've heard of a Unix C, from Holt/Stanford, which requires a Vax
   to utilize; has anyone had any experience with it?  Are any C
   compilers compatible with the Mac Assembler?

I realize some of these questions may be naive, and some may have
already been answered on the net; please bear with me.
I'd appreciate any information, rumors, pointers in the right direction;
please respond by mail to
	...!ihnp4!wucs!wuibc!etm

Thanks in advance,
Ed Macke