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From: ckd@bu-pub.bu.edu (Christopher K Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Borland and other proprietary bloodsuckers (Was: Re: BISON, GCC, and the GNU public license.)
Message-ID: <36119@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: 9 Aug 89 00:13:49 GMT
References: <Jul.5.09.29.33.1989.23541@topaz.rutgers.edu>
	<26@ark1.nswc.navy.mil> <68903@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>
	<5580@ficc.uu.net> <68993@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>
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In article <5580@ficc.uu.net>, peter@ficc (Peter da Silva) writes:

Peter> Whether the products are good or not is not relevant. Plenty of
Peter> people find them adequate. Personally, I don't care for Borland's
Peter> products either... but they do a better job than GNU CC on an
Peter> IBM-PC, XT, or AT.

On 8 Aug 89 15:33:40 GMT,
Horne-Scott@cs.yale.edu (Scott Horne) said:

Scott> GNU CC doesn't even run on a PC (so far as I know).  Your comment is
Scott> therefore meaningless.

Uh, maybe that was his POINT?  That since GCC won't even run on a PC, it's
not going to do a very good job for a PC-based programmer...
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