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From: ccastdd@prism.gatech.EDU (David Preston Dykes)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: ODT questions
Keywords: ODT SCO gcc GNU
Message-ID: <13398@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 6 Sep 90 18:52:08 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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Greetings-
	I posted a question about Open Desk Top a few weeks back but alas
I got no response from the net.  After doing some independent research I
am just about to take the plunge and buy it and enter the i386 unix world.
	Before I do I would like do, pose to any of ya'll out there that
are using this product a few more questions (if you can answer them PLEASE
do).
	1)  Are there any of ya'll that are using it but are disatisfied,
	if so why?

	2)  Being a dirt poor undergrad I cannot possibly afford the 
	developers kit...so I would like to make do with gcc.  I have
	many questions on this:
	a)  Would this include all the libraries etc I need to get down
	to programing for my environment including X?
	b)  I am in sorta a catch 22.  Without a c compiler, how the
	heck do I compile my c compiler?  Does anyone out there have
	a compiled version out there they would be so good as to send
	me?  Could I compile it on some system V AT&T machines I have
	access to and use those binaries (it is supposed to be sys v
	compatible n'est pas)?

	3)  Is any one running this on a system as whimppy as a 20MHz
	386sx with an mfm drive and 4Mb of memory, if so how slow are
	things (esp. X)?

ANY responses to these questions would be GREATLY appreciated.
			Thanks in Advance
			-Dave

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