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- Subject: RE: GCC 2.5.8
- Date: Sun, 20 Mar 94 21:44:28 CET
- From: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.north.de>
- In-Reply-To: <9403191624.AA17661@acae127>; from "jwahar r. bammi" at Mar 19, 94 11:24 am
- Message-Id: <9403202044.AA00640@jelal.north.de>
-
- jwahar r. bammi writes:
- > > 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).
-
- specialized enough that it crashed every g++ run for example... (sorry ;)
-
- > long filenames: yes it does. in the TOS version set UNIXMODE
- > as appro.
-
- i.e. UNIXMODE=/cu (right?)
-
- > > 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.
-
- oh yes...
-
- > 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.
-
- at least the last beta no longer seems to always eat all cycles it can
- get hold of like every pre-MiNT GEM version does. (and so the most time
- i have GEM running its in state `stop' and i'm on another terminal...)
-
- > but MiNT itself, as we
- > all know is very acceptable (i use it with a shell usually,
- > and/or with toswin sometimes).
-
- metoo, mostly with virtual consoles and minixfs. and for example
- _i_ haven't yet seen a news system on TOS thats as fast at processing
- articles and expiring as good ol' :) cnews-xt on MiNT + minixfs.
- maybe multiTOS is a dog and GEMDOS sure is one but MiNT? never.
- >
- > 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".
-
- if you read german just take the maus. newsgroups, they are full of
- these jokes... and everytime someone says mint is not crap and mag!x
- is not the best thing since slice bread he gets flamed to hell. :)
-
- well what can you do, there are also enough pc users who think their
- wind*ws is better than unix...
-
- cheers
- Juergen
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