Manx C (was Re: XT 5160)

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On Fri, 6 May 2005, Ethan Dicks wrote:

> I remember them in the 1986-1990 timeframe with their Amiga product.
> They were competing with Lattice (later SAS) C.  I personally went
> with Lattice for several reasons, none of which I can recall right
> now.  I do remember that Manx did embedded assembly just different
> enough from Lattice that it was not trivial to port from one to the
> other.  Makefiles were different, too.

I have Manx C for the Apple ][.  It was really made to be run from a hard
drive.  Long ago, I was developing a BBS and needed to convert the message
editor that I'd written in BASIC to something much faster.  I could've
done it in machine language but that would've taken more time than I
wanted to spend.  I'd known about C and wanted to learn it, and so I
thought this might be a good opportunity to do so: a practical project
needing a solution.  So I went about trying to teach myself C on Manx C.
After my first "Hello World!" program took about 3 minutes to compile,
involving multiple disk accesses across different volumes, I gave up and
just used the Beagle Compiler to compile my BASIC program ;)

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