Re: [MacPerl] Problem with tie and DB_FILE

[oszarazi@cuug.ab.ca (???)]

On Mon, 16 Dec 1996, Dr. M. Hartje wrote:

> hello Istvan,
> you want to use MacPerl 5 on a Mac Plus?
> 
> If you have any experience to bring it to work, please report on it.

Nope.  It's not working.  

> As Matthias Neeri answered to my question a few month ago, the port
> of macPerl 5.x need a 68020 at minimum hardware configuration.

Ahh.  A 68020.  Isn't it possible to mimic a 68020 with some form of
extension to the ROM routines or something?  I can't understand how a
chip would impact the running of an application on a Macintosh.  

I thought that as long as the Toolbox routines were there that
everything would be OK, but I'm just beginning to learn about the
Macintosh and its nuances.
 
> So I have ggod experience using The Perl 4.13 and 4.18 on a Mac SE
> with Sys 7.1 and 4 MByte Ram. It is sufficient for most of the
> problems I wnat to solve on this machine.

Right now, I'm running 4.13.  MacPerl 4.18 won't run for me either!!
(Plus ... 4Mb RAM ... Sys 7.0+).

> What is your intention for this equipment?

Not too much right now.  I'm hoping to learn more about what my
Macintosh is all about.  Maybe a bit about threaded systems.  

I would like to learn more about porting stuff over to the Mac, but
it's not like I have a great development environment here.  I don't
have MPW or Codewarrior, or MAE or anything like that, and I don't
know C.

I can connect to a couple of high-powered work stations, (using
MacKermit) but that's about it.

And it seems that most of the stuff (on this list) is geared towards
MPW rather than gcc and emacs and other gnu stuff which I have _some_ 
access to when our machines are stable.

> Did You brought it to run without bombs?

Not Perl 4.18.  And the Perl 5 stuff is probably outta reach.  All I
really want is a language where I can begin to reach into my machine,
and start to fix some things, and maybe learn a language that has some
usefulness in a variety of environments ... something I can do stuff
with.



Istvan.

> Thanks
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