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> According to our local dealer, there is an ST developer's kit available for
> $300 from Atari.  However, he didn't seem to have a very good idea of exactly
> what the kit includes -- I gather it comes with a C compiler and some other
> random utilities.  Can anyone out there in netland provide more details?  Is
> there a good reason why one should spend $300 on the developers kit versus
> $65 for Hippo C?  (Better compiler, better text editor, etc?)
> 
> -Sandra Loosemore (loosemore@utah-20)
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1 C compiler, assembler, linker, all of decent quality;

1 text editor, sort of like EMACS, 4 out of 10 in quality;

Assorted CPM utilities, and a program to exit gem into TOS (CPM);

A Batch program to run CPM commands from gem;

A ton of documentation varying from fair to awful, all of it essential and
unavailable elsewhere;

One gem application, the RSCS (resource construction set,) apparantly useful
for building other gem applications, very poorly documented and of dubious
quality, but interesting as a sample gem application.

Reports on Hippo C are extremely dubious.

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						Mark Roddy
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