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From: jbjones@marlin.NOSC.MIL (John B. Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: GNU story wanted!
Keywords: GNU
Message-ID: <1180@marlin.NOSC.MIL>
Date: 28 Jun 89 21:00:53 GMT
References: <7364@cs.Buffalo.EDU> <1040@acf3.NYU.EDU> <254@isctsse.UUCP>
Reply-To: jbjones@marlin.nosc.mil.UUCP (John B. Jones)
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
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In article <254@isctsse.UUCP> pajerek@isctsse.UUCP (Donald Pajerek) writes:
>>
>>As I understand it, GNU stands for "GNU's Not Unix".  A self-referential
>>company name!
>functionally equivalent to Unix (or maybe a superset). I don't know
>if the GNU operating system is actually available, but many components
>of it are, such as the EMACS editor and the GCC compiler.
WHOA!
Did you say that GNU actually has a C compiler out?  Does anyone have a
copy of this beast, and the compassion to send it to me?  I would really
like a copy....

John Jones
jbjones@marlin.nosc.mil