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- From: gtoal@ibmpcug.co.uk (Graham Toal)
- Subject: Re: The new Acorn Machine
- Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK.
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 01:40:45 GMT
- Message-ID: <Bxu7Bz.D4o@ibmpcug.co.uk>
- References: <721419881snx@cursci.demon.co.uk> <10942@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk> <gilbertd.721643489@p4.cs.man.ac.uk>
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- In article <gilbertd.721643489@p4.cs.man.ac.uk> gilbertd@p4.cs.man.ac.uk (David Alan Gilbert) writes:
- >The other point is that if RISCiX was a LOT cheaper,
- >and it was available for the A5000, they would have the
- >cheapest Unix workstation going, and I know a lot
- >of people who would be pleased with it.
-
- It's up to guys like you to port Unix yourselves if you want a free
- one. Acorn *can't* do it cheaply because of the AT&T licence. You
- should be thinking about doing a 386bsd... trouble is, there are
- a hundred times (at least) as many good programmers out there with
- 386 boxes as with archies.
-
- It seems to be the rule rather than the exception that grand projects
- for the archie just fizzle out. (Or is there still activity on gcc
- for risc os, or minix?)
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- G
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