Development system

[ben at catnip.UUCP]

In article <636 at pedsgo.UUCP> bob at pedsgo.UUCP (Bob Weiler) writes:
>Can anyone tell me if
>
>1)	I buy a XENIX development system, do I get a Microsoft C based
>	compiler or is it a PCC based compiler?

You get Microsoft C-Merge, which can compile programs for execution under
either Xenix or MS-DOS.  Of course, when you specify the -DOS flag, you
get different libraries that support a slightly different set of calls.
C-merge is very similar to the 3.0 release of Microsoft C for MS-DOS.

>2)	Is XENIX 386 available for the COMPAQ 386 yet? How bout
>	for any other 386?

Not yet.  It has been announced in the latest issue of their magazine
diSCOver, and should be available in a few months.  If you want '386
support now, you can buy Xenix/286 and the 386 developers toolkit.  This
will give you the 386 compiler, plus a minimal kernel for testing your
software.  With this route, you can have your software all ready when
they start shipping Xenix/386.

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Ben Broder
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