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A colleague has recently bought a 1040 ST. He also got the developers kit
and a hard disk. He is having grave problems with the system re
compile times and says that compiling the old standard "hello world"
problem takes 20 secs and a further minute to link. Now to me this
seems atrocious for such a configuration. Whats worse the runtime library
he has apparantly has features like the scanf doesnt work amongst others
and when he contacted atari they said something like 'Its not our
fault, its one of those well known undocumented broken bits
in the library'. My question is is this real and if so is there a better
compiler/linker/library than the one in the developers kit (He thinks it
is Alcyon) or is there probably something wrong with his configuration
that is obvious to all you atari freaks out there?

By the way he is definitely not impressed with the documentation with the
developers kit either, and he has installed a ramdisk and says he only gets
about a 20% improvement on these times.

Mail me please with any thoughts, and thanx in advance.

Disclaimer:
I use 680x0 workstations all the time so I probably expect too
much from micros.