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- Date: Sat, 19 Mar 94 11:24:07 -0500
- Message-Id: <9403191624.AA17661@acae127>
- From: bammi@cadence.com (jwahar r. bammi)
- X-Organization: Cadence Design Systems
- To: mint@atari.archive.umich.edu
- In-Reply-To: Evan K. Langlois's message of Fri, 18 Mar 94 14:49:22 CST <m0phlTw-000134C@sdf.lonestar.org>
- Subject: RE: GCC 2.5.8
-
- > Has anyone found any problems with GCC 2.5.8? Does it produce 68K (ie non-
- > 030 executables)? Will it accept long filenames? <<the version on a.a.u.e
- > seems to be for TOS, not MiNT>> Does it have Objective C support?
-
- no (major) problems reported in gcc 2.5.8. it does produce
- pure 68000 code, it always did! (yes there was a small bug in a very
- specialized case in 2.5.7 thats fixed).
- long filenames: yes it does. in the TOS version set UNIXMODE
- as appro. in the MiNT version use the minix FS. the TOS version can
- run under MiNT and vice versa.
- objective C: i have the supplemental files if you are
- interested. if you want you can do it yourself by simply hacking up an
- appro Makefile. I have never built he libraries nyself, but several
- people have.
-
- > Anyone know when the next version of MultiTOS is due out?
- i would'nt loose sleep over it. which reminds me ...
-
- does anyone else get the distinct impression that MiNT is getting a
- real bad reputation as being a dog becase of MultiTOS. i got an
- unsolicited copy of the local north attleboro atari users group
- newsletter, where the main feature at this months meeting was a geneva
- demo. one of the big seeling points of geneva according to the
- newletter is that it is not a dog like MultiTOS. in the accompanying
- article, the author who reviews geneva offers this explaination as the
- main reason -- "Geneva uses ccoperative multitasking. This is the
- method used by MAC's system 7 and MSDOS Windows. .... MultiTOS is a
- pre-emtive multitasking. It severly controls each application's access
- to the CPU ......" [more nonsense deleted].
-
- maybe multiTOS is a dog, i dunno, never used it. but MiNT itself, as we
- all know is very acceptable (i use it with a shell usually,
- and/or with toswin sometimes).
-
- i leave you with another amusing quote from the same article
-
- "Atari was so impressed with Eric Smith, the author of MultiTos, that
- they hired him. Given the performance of Geneva versus MultiTos, they
- should sign over the company to Dan Wilga, the author of Geneva".
-
- cheers,
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