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- From: nas20@cl.cam.ac.uk (Nick Smith)
- Subject: Re: Modula 2/3
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.002649.11892@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
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- Organization: U of Cambridge Comp Lab, UK
- References: <1992Nov11.223839.9171@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 00:26:49 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov11.223839.9171@infodev.cam.ac.uk> crj10@phx.cam.ac.uk (Clive Jones) writes:
- >X-Furry-Character: Gerald_Duck
- Urg ...
-
- >
- >In article <1992Nov11.124610.22046@infodev.cam.ac.uk>, jna10@cl.cam.ac.uk (J.N. Abley) writes:
- >> And while I'm here, has anyone ported a modula 2/3 compiler to the Arc?
- >
- >I believe a standalone Modula-2 compiler for the Arc exists - it has certainly
- >been mentioned since the days of Arthur, and the old APCS!
- >
- >Modula-3 certainly doesn't exist for RiscOS3, and it is my suspicion that it
- >never will, at least in its DEC/SRC incarnation. To say that the compiler is
- >grungy is an understatement, and it's quite heavyweight - you'd need a good
- >few megabytes of RAM, and tens of megabytes of hard disc.
-
- I think you over-estimate the size of Modula 3 itself - I have ftp'd the
- SRC DEC Modula-3 distribution, and while all the X libraries, etc. are
- really quite large - you could have a RISC OS binary < 2MB (the executable)
- and the core libraries & headers in less than 10 MB of harddisc. I fear
- that you would need 8MB of RAM to run the compiler though ...
-
- I'd don't believe the job of porting is that difficult (he says!), but for
- the time being, I think I'll stick with running it under RISCiX thanks !
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- Nick Smith, Rm.226, Churchill College, Cambridge ! Email: nas20@uk.ac.cam.phx
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