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From: gft_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu
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Subject: Re: SUMMARY: Unix on the Mac - A/UX replacements
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Date: 6 Dec 90 21:18:02 GMT
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In article <1990Dec5.051741.1909@julius.cs.uiuc.edu>, coolidge@cs.uiuc.edu (John Coolidge) writes...
 
>thomas@duteca (Thomas Okken) writes:
>>The FSF (the free software foundation, a
>>group of programmer producing arguably the best software in the world
>>, for free) boycott apple because of its look-and-feel lawsuits. That
>>means that none of the FSF software (their c-compiler gcc,
>>c++-compiler g++ and a plethora of other first rate tools) is not
>>available for the MAC. This would be an important point against AUX
>>for my uses of UNIX, maybe you feel similarily.  If you want any of
>>their software (some of it is quasi-hacker-standard) you would have to
>>port it yourself, which can be quite hard.


Not true.  I just downloaded the gnu c compiler from apple.com yesterday
(pub/gnu.mpw I think).  It works with MPW.  I think I might have seen A/UX
versions there too, but I'm not sure.  There is other gnu stuff archived both
at apple.com and ftp.apple.com (the permanently "semi-up" site).

Robert



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