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Re: ANSI C conversion for KA9Q ?

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From: Tom Hughes
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 1995 00:00
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In article <484fcb$j4o@skate.demon.co.uk> Iain Hibbert (plunky@skate.demon.co.uk) wrote:

> I think there is also an Archimedes port of KA9Q, but again that has diverged
> from the original sources..  I don't watch the demon.ip.support.mac newsgroup
> but never see KA9Q mentioned in demon.tech.mac, they seem to mostly use other
> software (that is built into System 7.5 ?)

Indeed. The Archimedes port diverged from the PC version some years
ago now. All the Acorn C compilers (Acorn C, Easy C and gcc) are ANSI
compilers anyway, and AFAIK everyone working on KA9Q uses Acorn C at
the moment (they couldn't use Easy C as it has 32 bit shorts).

Tom

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