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On 12 Nov, in article <484fcb$j4o@skate.demon.co.uk>
     plunky@skate.demon.co.uk "Iain Hibbert" wrote:

IH> Niel Kempson <kempson@snowyowl.co.uk> writes:
IH> > The KA9Q source contains conditionals, I see conditionals for AMIGA,
IH> > AZTEC, LATTICE & MAC in addition to the compilers I know for DOS and
IH> > OS/2.  I don't know if these platform have ANSI C compilers and whether
IH> > the AZTEC/LATTICE compilers still exist.
IH> 
IH> the Aztec & Lattice compilers were both Amiga compilers, they did things

I think Lattice also had a PC compiler, and that eventually
turned into Microsoft C version 4 a long time ago.

Whether that's relevant to the defines in the ka9q source I've
no idea.

I think there's a great need for (even a little) developers'
documentation with the program.  I don't think there's even
a read.me file.

--
John Washington

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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Niel Kempson <kempson@snowyowl.co.uk> writes:
> The KA9Q source contains conditionals, I see conditionals for AMIGA,
> AZTEC, LATTICE & MAC in addition to the compilers I know for DOS and
> OS/2.  I don't know if these platform have ANSI C compilers and whether
> the AZTEC/LATTICE compilers still exist.

the Aztec & Lattice compilers were both Amiga compilers, they did things
slightly differently..  the Aztec (also known as Manx for some reason) one
is effectively dead, most people these days use either SAS/C (which is
descended from Lattice - SAS Institute bought it out) or DICE or GCC, all of
which are ANSI compatible .. AmigaNOS has diverged from KA9Q though, and I
don't think they use the main sources any more though Dan Cannon at
<dan@blender.demon.co.uk> is the last person I know to have done work on it.
I don't know how widespread its use is either, many people use AmiTCP as its
more integrated with the OS as opposed to just being an application. (AmiTCP
is a port of the BSD network code, plus features)

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 ?)

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]ain

Iain Hibbert (plunky@skate.demon.co.uk) said,
        in message <484fcb$j4o@skate.demon.co.uk>:

> I think there is also an Archimedes port of KA9Q, but again that has diverged
> from the original sources..

Yep; it diverged a long time ago.  Although we use ANSI C, the source
hasn't been changed to ANSI standard; it still "extern"s everything
willy nilly.

Anyway; as far as Niel's proposal goes; changing the DIS baseline
code to ANSI C would not affect us adversely ;)

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