From: Eric Backus <ericb AT lsid DOT hp DOT com>
Subject: Re: NDMAKE
To: greve AT rs1 DOT thch DOT uni-bonn DOT de (Thomas Greve) (Thomas Greve)
Date: Tue, 19 May 92 10:14:33 PDT
Cc: ericb AT lsid DOT hp DOT com, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Mailer: Elm [revision: 66.25]
Status: O

> > It might make more sense to port Gnu make to DJGPP, and make it
> > use response files.  I might work on that if I get the time, but I
> > suspect that this would be a fair amount of work.

> Hm. This would mean, a 32bit make (with go32 no1) calls a 32bit gcc
> (go32 no2) that calls a 32bit cc1plus or -obj (go32 no3). We need a
> system32() some day, dont we?

Personnally, I'd rather not have a system32().  I'd like our
environment to look as much like UNIX as possible.

Seems like having these 32-bit programs calling each other should
eventually be good, not bad.  Our problem today is we spend a lot of
time swapping things to disk.  Perhaps things would work better if:

	1. We had a single TSR go32 (rather than one copy per
	   program).
	2. We had a pager somewhere that only swapped out a program's
	   pages when necessary (rather than every time the program
	   calls system()).
	3. We had faster computers and disks.
	4. We all had more RAM.
	5. We all installed UNIX on our PCs.

Actually, I'm satisfied with the speed I have now, and all I have is
a 386/33 with 4MB.
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