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- From: gilbertd@p4.cs.man.ac.uk (David Alan Gilbert)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: The new Acorn Machine
- Message-ID: <gilbertd.722075728@p4.cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 08:35:28 GMT
- References: <721419881snx@cursci.demon.co.uk> <10942@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk> <gilbertd.721643489@p4.cs.man.ac.uk> <1992Nov17.113305.27450@csd.uwe.ac.uk>
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- In <1992Nov17.113305.27450@csd.uwe.ac.uk> r_voisey@csd.uwe.ac.uk (R Voisey) writes:
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- >In article <gilbertd.721643489@p4.cs.man.ac.uk> gilbertd@p4.cs.man.ac.uk (David Alan Gilbert) writes:
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- >>I dont know what the price of commercial Unix's are for PC's,
- >>but I suspect a reasonable 386 could be purchased with Unix
- >>for less than RISCiX.
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- >Last time I looked, SCO-V was pushing half a grand WITHOUT compilers. The
- >programmer's toolkit (compilers/assemblers/linkers/debugger) was an extra
- >couple of hundred. If you then buy opendesktop (the route SCO suggest) you're
- >looking at a tag around the same as RiscIX.
-
- >Having said that, you can get Linux for free - I believe someone is working
- >on an X11R5 port for it as well. It's not in the class of SCO, but it's
- >not bad either - probably the best freeware product I've seen to date.
-
- X is apparently available for Linux. If SCO is #500 without compilers,
- thats fine - just go and get the GNU compilers. RISCiX without compilers,
- X and the rest of it would do similarly. For a lot of educational
- establishments, there is very little hastle in getting hold of GNU
- software.
-
- Dave
-
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