Re: Doing real software development on a IIgs

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <57fgc5$fb7@bmerhc5e.bnr.ca>,
Jeffrey Robertson <jeffr@bnr.ca> wrote:
>It's pretty well stock: 4.25 Mb and about 100 Mb of
>harddrives, but no accelerators, SecondSight, etc.

   The RAM and the HD are what you do need for serious GS
development; you've got enough.

>I'd like to do some basic C coding.  Some would just
>be text stuff, but I'd like to try some GUI too.
>What software should I buy?  I expect I should get
>GNO, but what about a compiler?

   Orca/C 2.1 is a minimum, unless you have a compiler already.  2.1
and 1.3 are the best versions of the Orca/C package; other ones can
have very flaky codegen. GNO/ME has a a great shell with enough of the
unix addons (less, make, etc) to make development much nicer if you're
used to powerful environments.

   The GNO/ME libraries for Orca/C 2.1 aren't available yet, so
porting unix stuff is out for now. However, you can still write shell
and GUI stuff fine.

Nathan Mates
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