From johnbs@hku.hk  Thu Feb 26 00:42:44 1998
From: johnbs@hku.hk (John Bacon-Shone)
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 08:42:44 +0800
Subject: R-beta: Mac version
In-Reply-To: <9802252152.AA11595@nokomis.stat.umn.edu>
References: <Pine.SUN.3.95.980225085929.25647A-100000@chekov>
Message-ID: <v04003a15b11a6a86149a@[147.8.208.251]>

>Thomas Lumley wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, John Bacon-Shone wrote:
>> >
>> > While MPW is now free, almost all developers have given up on MPW and
>> > Symantec (both have development stopped)and switched to Metrowerks, who
>> > have good academic prices and good onward development.
>>
>> Metrowerks now has a Win32 version as well, which may make it easier to
>> keep the Win and Mac versions in sync. It seems from the box as though you
>> get the ability to cross-compile, which might make it easy to keep
>> versions in sync.
>
>Cross compiling is possible but I think debugging is a pain - there is
>some mechanism but I think it's pretty awkward.

true, but the CD contains native compilers/debuggers for both

> I'm actually doing my
>Windows stuff in Borland 5.0, but using SoftWindows on a Mac -- that
>seems to work nicely if you can live with a 200 MHz Mac running at
>about 486/33 speed :-).

I prefer Virtual PC, quite good on a G3, more like a P90 :)

Regards

John

Dr John Bacon-Shone, Director, Social Sciences Research Centre,
The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong
Tel: 852-28592412  Fax: 852-28584327 E-mail: mailto:johnbs@hku.hk
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R-beta: Mac version
John Bacon-Shone