[Coco] gcc-coco revisited

Roger Taylor rtaylor at bayou.com
Thu Nov 13 00:00:01 EST 2003


At 11:19 PM 11/12/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>In a message dated 11/3/03 10:24:20 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>dbree at duo-county.com writes:
>
> > Yes, that's true.  I don't know how fast some of these systems are.  My
> >  trouble is that I am in Linux all the time.  I rarely go into Winders,
> >  where I have the Vavasour emulator.  My P-166 just can't handle mess
> >  under Xwindows.  It's way slower than a Coco.

It makes you wonder if they are using a BASIC compiler to write 
M.E.S.S.  ;)   Ok, that's not fair, but it's true that the speed difference 
in Vavasour's emulator and the CoCo modes in M.E.S.S. are much 
different.  I only hope the M.E.S.S. team doesn't keep slowing things down.


>Uh-oh, my P-133  64M Linux box probably wouldn't be too great a MESS machine
>either.  Well, I can stop thinking about downloading MESS for a 
>while.  Though
>a Windows version of MESS would go faster on my 433 MHz main machine (this
>one).
>Linux refuses to install on it.  --Mike K.
>
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