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From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Windows Programming
Message-ID: <1990Jun14.163602.3080@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 14 Jun 90 16:36:02 GMT
References: <1990Jun11.110735.13581@usenet@kadsma> <1990Jun12.010850.17716@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> <22139@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <NELSON.90Jun12132554@image.clarkson.edu> <22165@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <NELSON.90Jun12230207@image.clarkson.edu> <1990Jun13.154100.14607@ <NE
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In article <NELSON.90Jun13202620@image.clarkson.edu> nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu writes:
>In article <1990Jun13.154100.14607@sj.ate.slb.com> poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger) writes:
>
>   Unfortunately even the traditional OS's may be changing. Sunos (BSD
>   unix) used to include a C compiler with the OS. While it is still
>   bundled with the latest release (4.1), it is the same old piece of
>   crap compiler they have always had.  It is non-ANSI compliant. If
>   you want a REAL C compiler, now you have to pay for it separately.
>
>Yup, you have to pay for a tape from the Free Software Foundation,
>or if you can FTP, you FTP a copy of gcc from prep.ai.mit.edu.  Compile
>it with your grody old compiler, and viola, a modern ANSI compiler,
>complete with source.
>

Yes, we have gcc and g++. If you can't get it from ftp, then at least the cost
of buying it is for media and handling only, a couple hundred bucks, not the
$1200 Sun wants FOR EACH LICENSE.


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