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Metrowerks Cross-Platform Development

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David M. Palmer <palmer@alumni.caltech.edu> writes:

On the subject of DOS compatibility, Metrowerks, which in the past year has become THE Macintosh development system company, has announced CodeWarrior Platinum, which is the Metrowerks developer environment (Pascal, C, C++, etc.) that can compile for the 68x00, the PowerPC, and the Intel 80x86. With this development, a Power Mac with a DOS card may become the standard system for cross-platform development, and may even become the standard system for Wintel development.

 

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