Unix or Dos development environment - the conclussions

[Robert Hartill]

Thanks to all those who repsonded to my request for opnions on which OS I
should use to develop a real-time OS, for a 80386.

I want to produce 32bit code for the 386 (from C/C++)

I suggested in my original posting that debugging would be easier from DOS
(thinking of the Turbo Debugger's 386 debugger).

Anyway I received 8 replies, 

3 in favour of DOS   -1 using Watcom C
		     -1 'cos of the Turbo debugger
                     -1 using Lattice C

5 in favour of UNIX  -3 'cos of the software tools
                     -3 'cos of core dump in aiding debugging 
                     -1 suggesting gcc / g++

In my opinion the arguments for Unix were stronger than those Dos.

The dos people tend to recomend specific products, whereas the Unix
people praise the development environment of the OS.

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Further comments would be appreciated,
I'll probable opt for UNIX, so other than Zortech C++ for SCO sysV/386,
are there any other '386 compilers out there ?

 
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::     Robert Hartill, Dept Of Computing Mathematics, UWCC, Cardiff, UK.     ::
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