From: phil <imbe AT primenet DOT com>
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Subject: Re: GCC on an 80286
Date: 14 Nov 1997 22:47:00 -0700
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Hans Ecke wrote:
> 
> Hi all!
> 
> I`m programming in Pascal and C aplications to aid in measuring various
> data. I would _really_ like to use GCC and GPC as the development
> plattform but I have one big problem : The computers which do the
> measurement are mostly 80286.

we have lots of 286's doing data acquisition too.  so far i've been
writing really plain stuff with watcom for the 286's, trying to be
careful not to come up with anything really clever that i will want to
translate to allegro. why? because it takes 3 times the number of lines
of code to get some text into a graphic window with watcom, and i hate
to feel that i'm wasting my time!  if you feel obliged to use a free
compiler, Micro-C (shareware from http://www.dunfield.com/ ) will let
you write really tiny com files, and it is quite stable, but has no
floating point.  i actually have a 550 byte com file compiled with
micro-c that streams arbitrary waveform data out through a 16-bit D to A
card in a 286 laptop with one half card expansion slot! 

And YES, if somebody has a GNU solution, i'm game for it!

phil