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- From: samw@bucket.rain.com (Sam Warden)
- Subject: Re: About the ACK ANSI compiler... [not the
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- Date: 31 Dec 92 04:56:53 GMT
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- yee@mipg.upenn.edu (Conway Yee) writes:
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- >About using GCC, I am under the impression that you need the MINIX 386
- >extensions in order to use it. The limitations of out-of-the-box MINIX
- >is far too restrictive. I note that the out-of-the-box LINUX will run
- >GCC and other freely-redistributable tools quite happily.
-
- What I find curious is that those of us who are still stuck with
- XTs and ATs to run Minix on are precisely the people who cannot
- afford $200 for _anything_. :-/ It seems ironic (at least) that
- there's a plethora of "free" tools at the high end and not at the
- low.
-
- A related complaint is that much of the "Minix" application code
- that I need in order to move away from MSDOS seems to be 386-only
- (I'm thinking especially of the ZIP utility) but is not identified
- as such in the archives. It's very disappointing to track down
- something, ftp it, download it, and _then_ find out it's stuffing
- longs into pointers and running the ACK compiler out of memory.
- Oh, well...
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- --
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- samw@bucket.rain.com (Sam Warden) -- and not a mere Device.
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