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- From: softbase@mercury.interpath.net (Scott McMahan - Softbase Systems)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: PowerC
- Date: 1 Mar 1996 18:33:59 GMT
- Organization: Interpath -- Providing Internet access to North Carolina
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- References: <4fu1cn$qh6@panix.com> <4gu0jf$gd9@SNFC21_SRVR_WWW.PBI.net>
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- mich@pbinet.com wrote:
- : In <4fu1cn$qh6@panix.com>, arte@panix.com (Arthur Ellen) writes:
- : >How can I get a copy of the PowerC compiler?
-
- : One might well ask why you want a copy of power c when gnu c is available
- : at the same price and so much more powerful.
-
- It's also a pain the the @$$ to install (I tried and gave up getting it
- to work), many many many megabytes in size, and needs a special runtime
- environment. Power C is small, fast, simple, powerful as you can get in
- DOS, and has a great manual with it. Maybe in the 32 bit world, once a
- Windows 95 GCC comes out that can generate native applications,
- everything will be different.
-
- Scott
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