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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: SPARCstation 2 --> workstation wars
Message-ID: <902@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 20 Oct 90 04:11:51 GMT
References: <1990Oct19.181008.24196@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> <2793@lectroid.sw.stratus.com> <1990Oct20.004404.28918@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu>
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In article <1990Oct20.004404.28918@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu>
	brtmac@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu (Brett McCoy) writes:
>                                                       Nearly every program
>that exists on the anonymous ftp archives will compile and run on a Sun
>without to much trouble.  Can that be said of a NeXT?

Yes!  And in my experience it's been easier to compile random
net sources on NeXTs than Sun-4s... and that was before 4.1
"broke" lots of things that worked under 4.0.3.

					-=EPS=-