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- From: mhuang@buast7.bu.edu (Maohai Huang)
- Newsgroups: comp.realtime
- Subject: Re: Lynx and Chorus
- Message-ID: <105937@bu.edu>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 05:28:23 GMT
- References: <1992Dec31.181031.11309@umr.edu>
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- Organization: Astronomy Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
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- In article <1992Dec31.181031.11309@umr.edu> quandt@mcs213c.cs.umr.edu (Brian Quandt) writes:
- >
- > it
- >can be (and frankly is) a pain! Many of their tools such as
- >compilers, linkers, etc are old and really need to be updated. We
- >dont understand why they don't upgrade this stuff to more current
- >software when most of the stuff is already public domain (mostly
-
- and device drivers ( network cards, display, SCSI adapters etc.) are
- limitedly provided for PCs.
-
- maybe they are busy establishing Lnyx on different platforms.
-
- >GNU stuff). Here's a typical problem we have experienced with Lynx:
- > We would like to use the large amount of PD software out there
- > so we download it from the nets and then try to compile. On
- > average less then 5% of the stuff we try will compile without
- > major screwing around. Short list of failures: xf, tk, and even
- > tcl would not compile.
- >
-
- i've spent a lot of time compiling PD software on my 486 under Lynx, with
- little success. Lynx seems to me a system which provids basic utilities for
- real-time task development but far from a comfortable environment. no
- wonder VENIX claim itself as "real unix" -- it makes sense.
-
- mh
-